nterpreting (with) Freud? Laplanche, Hoffmann and the Copernican Birth of Unconscious Drives

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

James Wills

关键词: Laplanche;    Ptolemaic;    Copernican;    Jewels;    Internal Other;    Psychoanalysis;    Metapsychology;    Freud;    Other;    Seduction Theory;    Primal Situation;    Primal Scene;    Ptolemaic;    Copernican/Copernican Revolution;    Hoffmann;    Mademoiselle de Scudery;    Cardillac;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

This paper intends to correlate Laplanchecomplex theoretical development of Freud and his creation of a opernican?general theory of seduction, focusing on the concept of the nigmatic signifier?and its relation to a reconceived concept of the drive. This psychoanalytic framework is then applied to E. T. A. HoffmannMademoiselle de Scuderyand thecharacter of master-jewellerRenCardillac. When viewed through a Laplanchian optic, I propose the jewels, a highly psycho-significant object in the novella, particularly in its primal scene, become distinctively re-positioned;re-centered as the mysterious, yet controlling,internal other.

【 授权许可】

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