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"The most obscure problem of all": autonomy and its vicissitudes in The interpretation of dreams.

Abstract：

:The unconscious is implicated in Romantic and liberal discourses of autonomous individuality, and these insinuate themselves in complex ways into Freud's descriptions of the psyche. Focusing on "The Interpretation of Dreams," the paper examines the fortunes of notions such as autonomy and selfhood, beginning with a consideration of Freud's languages of determinism, and moving on to the theory of the wish. In particular it examines ambiguities in the accounts of sexual and egotistical wishes, and in the portrayal of egotism itself. It is suggested that behind such ambiguities lies a deeper ambivalence in Freud's understanding of the I and its autonomy, which is in turn related to indeterminacies in the liberal concept of self. These ambiguities are further explored via the unstable political metaphors Freud attaches to the father-son relationship. The paper argues that such instabilities in the idea of selfhood radically unsettle the terms of the psychoanalytic account.

journal_name

Psychoanal Hist

journal_title

Psychoanalysis and history

authors

Ffytche M

doi

10.3366/pah.2007.9.1.39

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-01-01 00:00:00

pages

39-70

issue

1

eissn

1460-8235

issn

1755-201X

journal_volume

9

pub_type

传,历史文章,杂志文章

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