Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst by Cottet Serge; Gilbert Kate; Holland John

Author:Cottet, Serge; Gilbert, Kate; Holland, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karnac Books

Notes

1.“The determination of the original state of things thus invariably remains a matter of construction” (Freud, Totem and Taboo, p. 103, note).

2.See S. Freud, A Child is Being Beaten. A censored statement must be introduced into the composition of the phantasy: “My father is beating me” is a construction.

3.Lacan uses the term “bits of real” (“bouts de réel”) in Seminar XXIII (p. 123).

4.In German, gebannt means “fascinated” and “banned”. See G. W.: XII, p. 135.

5.Concerning the history of this concept, see J. Strachey’s translator’s footnote to “Constructions in Analysis”, p. 266, and Granoff, p. 368.

6.The translation from the Standard Edition has been altered in order to reproduce the faulty element that the author notes in the French translation. Strachey’s translation actually uses “formed”, rather than “constructed” (translator’s note).

7.In the Standard Edition, Freud’s term here, reale Nichtigkeit, is translated as “a real event of no importance” (S. E., 11, p. 83); the “enigmatic” French translation to which Cottet refers is “riens réels” (translator’s note).

8.“We too believe that the pious solution contains the truth—but the historical truth and not the material truth” (Moses and Monotheism, p. 129). Concerning this point, see Clément’s Le Pouvoir des mots, which rightly sets up an opposition between construction and hermeneutics (p. 67).

9.Freud makes a (Karl) Popperian objection to himself: the psychoanalyst is irrefutable—heads I win, tails you lose. The article goes on to solve this aporia with a proof “by its effects”.

10.“They have had lively recollections called up in them—which they themselves have described as ‘ultra-clear’—but what they have recollected has not been the event that was the subject of the construction but details relating to that subject” (“Constructions in Analysis”, p. 266). See also note 42.

11.Alexander anticipates this point by conceiving of the treatment as the equivalent of reality-testing when it is judgement, rather than repression, that decides the fate of the drive; this supposes that the superego’s interference has ceased (see Alexander, “A Metapsychological Description of the Process of Cure”, p. 13).

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