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Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmThe Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: The Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes... [Psychoanalysis, ‘the talking cure’, materializes from a practice of language, a practice of listening and reading especially attuned to the rhetorical dimension of language. While the focused attention to figurality aligns it with literature, psychoanalysis is also drawn to the side of scientific discourse by an impulse to theoretical construction. I mean this in the sense Freud gave to his and his patient’s joint (re)construction of the primal scene in the Wolf Man’s case history, or the sense in which he postulated the unconscious as a necessary explanation of psychic processes on the basis of their observable material effects. That is another way to say that the unconscious is less something that Freud discovered than a conceptual figure or, in his words, a construction in analysis.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmThe Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
ISBN
978-1-349-35720-8
Pages
114 –150
DOI
10.1057/9780230583047_6
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Abstract

[Psychoanalysis, ‘the talking cure’, materializes from a practice of language, a practice of listening and reading especially attuned to the rhetorical dimension of language. While the focused attention to figurality aligns it with literature, psychoanalysis is also drawn to the side of scientific discourse by an impulse to theoretical construction. I mean this in the sense Freud gave to his and his patient’s joint (re)construction of the primal scene in the Wolf Man’s case history, or the sense in which he postulated the unconscious as a necessary explanation of psychic processes on the basis of their observable material effects. That is another way to say that the unconscious is less something that Freud discovered than a conceptual figure or, in his words, a construction in analysis.2]

Published: Sep 14, 2015

Keywords: Primary Process; Sexual Drive; Pleasure Principle; Death Drive; Psychic Process

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