Impersonal Es: On the Gap between Theory and Practice in S. Freud's Psychoanalysis

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  • 非人称のエス --フロイト精神分析における理論と実践のずれをめぐって--
  • ヒニンショウ ノ エス : フロイト セイシン ブンセキ ニ オケル リロン ト ジッセン ノ ズレ オ メグッテ

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the "incoherence" between theoretical transitions of psychoanalysis and the "gap" between such theory and practice, focusing on S. Freud's concept of "Es." First, I indicate that the practice of psychoanalysis is understood as what Freud calls "working-through (Durcharbeiten), " through which a person creates his or her own life history by making what is unconscious conscious. Second, I show that the practice of psychoanalysis is clearly theorized by Freud's first topography in which he connects the practice and theory of psychoanalysis by the idea of "Psychic representative of drive." Third, I show the problem caused by Freud's transition from his first topography to his second topography. In the second topography, the theory of psychoanalysis imposes contradictory requests on the practice: we have to make Es ego, but on the other hand, we must not understand Es's voice as ego's voice. Finally, the paper examines the implications of "Es's scarcely accessible nucleus" suggested by Freud in his later years. Elucidation of the new "I" constituted by listening to the voice of impersonal Es and a practical means of enabling transformation to such "I" are found as new questions.

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