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- Title
הבית והדרך.
- Authors
לוי, איתמר
- Abstract
The paper offers insights drawn from a close reading of numerous images and metaphors in Freud's writings, primarily images of houses and homes, on the one hand, and images of roads and voyages, on the other hand. These images (and their variations) gradually portray the geography and the architecture of Freud's inner world of the imagination. The home and the road are two archetypal images, two basic categories that order the archive of psychoanalytic imagination. The discussion reveals that, for Freud, the homeis mainly associated with femininity and is often uncanny, while the road is masculine and heroic. It also reveals that Freud did not use these images simply as arbitrary illustrations for the theory, but also as the outlines of a latent, alternative theory, at times quite different from the explicit one. It seems that Freud used these metaphors in this fashion intentionally, at least some of the time. While Freud's manifest scientific text delineates a rational, positivistic, and modern world, the archive of his images often delineates a post-modern, paradoxical, and irrational one. To be sure, post-Freudian psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan, Donald Winnicott, and Thomas Ogden also contributed to the post-modern psychoanalytic discourse, but the present paper is mainly concerned with the origins of this later view that were already concealed in Freud's imagery. As a tribute to Freud qua writer, my paper is written more as a story or a guided tour in an imaginary museum than in the conventional style of scientific genre.
- Publication
Ma'arag: Israeli Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010, Vol 1, p177
- ISSN
2413-290X
- Publication type
Article