Passion in Theory by Ferrell Robyn

Author:Ferrell, Robyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published: 2011-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

But if we take this back to the accusation against metaphysics, that it projects psychical structures onto a supernatural reality, can we nevertheless sufficiently differentiate the scientific process from this? We can ask whether we have a case of introjection, where structures from an external world are taken into a conception of the mental? In as much as it is the imposition of conventions on perceptions of the real, it does not seem different in kind perhaps from the projection there denigrated: in both cases, an interpreting of signs through a priori conceptions.

Metapsychology, then, reverses the action of metaphysics. In discussing secondary revision, in ‘The interpretation of dreams’, Freud notes that it is provided with much of its apparent coherence from readymade structures in psychical life: phantasies, of which the ‘day dream’ is the classic case. The secondary revision often borrows these essentially wishful narrative structures for its dreamwork. A parallel can be made with the ‘conventions borrowed from one knows not where’. Such a perspective makes of metaphysics a tendentious, even a wishful, activity. Indeed, writes Freud:

The thing that distinguishes and at the same time reveals this part of the dream-work is its purpose. This function behaves in the manner which the poet [Heine] maliciously ascribes to philosophers: it fills up the gaps in the dream-structure with shreds and patches.

(1900, 490)

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