By Carol Cosman, Jacques Bouveresse
Did Freud current a systematic speculation in regards to the subconscious, as he regularly maintained and as a lot of his disciples continue repeating? this query has lengthy triggered debates about the legitimacy and usability of psychoanalysis, and it really is of maximum significance to Lacanian analysts, whose major undertaking has been to emphasize Freud's medical grounding. right here Jacques Bouveresse, a famous authority on Ludwig Wittgenstein, contributes to the controversy through turning to this Austrian-born thinker and modern of Freud for a candid overview of the early matters surrounding psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein, who himself had brought a devastating critique of conventional philosophy, sympathetically contemplated Freud's declare to have produced a systematic conception in featuring a brand new version of the human psyche. What Wittgenstein recognized--and what Bouveresse so eloquently stresses for today's reader--is that psychoanalysis doesn't target to supply a transformation restricted to the mind yet fairly seeks to impress an genuine switch of human attitudes. the sweetness in the back of the speculation of the subconscious for Wittgenstein is that it breaks clear of clinical, causal motives to supply new varieties of pondering and talking, or quite, a brand new mythology.
Offering a serious view of all of the texts during which Wittgenstein mentions Freud, Bouveresse immerses us within the highbrow weather of Vienna within the early a part of the 20th century. even supposing we come to determine why Wittgenstein didn't view psychoanalysis as a technology right, we're still made to consider the philosopher's feel of ask yourself and appreciate for the cultural activity Freud took on as he stumbled on new methods meaningfully to debate human matters. Intertwined during this tale of Wittgenstein's grappling with the idea of the subconscious is the tale of ways he got here to query the authority of technology and of philosophy itself. whereas aiming basically on the explanation of Wittgenstein's opinion of Freud, Bouveresse's publication could be learn as a problem to the French psychoanalytic college of Lacan and as a provocative remark on cultural authority.
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Whereas Reason and Passion centred upon Segal's influence on psychoanalytic theory and practice, this volume reflects her broad influence on fields of enquiry far removed from the privacy of the consulting room. I have already had cause to mention the four 'literary' papers (Britton, Sodri, Bell and Steiner) and will now turn to the other contributions. Michael Rustin discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to the 'modernist project', firstly clarifying the different meanings of the term 'modernist'.
Segal's 'literary' papers span all the above categories. Her paper on Conrad (Segal, 1984) uses his work to illustrate the relation between the working through of the conflicts of the depressive position and creativity in general, most especially as it applies to the mid-life crisis. In addition she gives a psychoanalytic account of the novel itself and relates its themes to critical biographical aspects of Conrad's life. The paper on William Gelding's The Spire, already referred to, is more a meeting between a psychoanalyst and an author who, coming from different perspectives, have made the same discoveries.
Following this outburst of poetry there is a long silence in the Elegies followed by the isolated production of the bitterest of them all, written in November 1915, now numbered the fourth and known as the 'Marionette Elegy'. This emerged in a period of despair. For I no longer doubt that I am sick, and my sickness has gained a lot of ground and is also lodged in that which heretofore I called my work so that for the present there is no refuge there. This is from a letter to Lou of June 8th 1914; in it he accuses himself of destructiveness for which in the past he has always blamed others and he makes clear that he can no longer entertain a sense of persecution.