Reading… Seminar II, Chapter VI – Freud, Hegel and the Machine
Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter VI – Freud, Hegel and the machine (All quotations refer to The Seminar...
Reading… Seminar II, Chapter V – Homeostasis and Insistence
Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter V – Homeostasis and Insistence (All quotations refer to The Seminar of Jacques Lacan:...
Reading… Seminar II, Chapter IV – A Materialist Definition of the Phenomenon of Consciousness
Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter IV – A Materialist Definition of the Phenomenon of Consciousness (All quotations refer...
Reading ‘The Unconscious’
The Unconscious 1915 Standard Edition Volume XIV Before going into depth on this important paper we can note the fact that at the very outset Freud differentiates between two...
Reading ‘On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love
On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (Contributions to the Psychology of Love II) 1912 Standard Edition Volume XI Despite the huge volume of psychoanalytic...
Reading ‘Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence’
Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence 1896 Standard Edition Volume III The central thesis of the 1894 paper The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence restated: that it is possible to distinguish...
Reading ‘The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence’
The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence 1894 Standard Edition Volume III Freud’s point of departure in this paper is the contemporary agreement between he, Breuer and Janet, on the idea that...
Reading the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 1915 – 1916 SE Volume XVI As the purpose of these lectures is to introduce the reader to psychoanalytic theory, there is no need to...
Why is Freud upside down?
Freud’s image is ubiquitous, perhaps overly so, and has come to represent much more than Freud and his work. His image, featured at the top of this site, is...