{"title":"Potentiality and Uncovering: The Impenetrability of the Unconscious","authors":"Alex J Wolfson","doi":"10.1353/aim.2021.0016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses the concept of archeology as a means to understand the problem of the inaccessibility of the unconscious. If unconscious material is absolutely barred from consciousness, as Freud repeatedly maintains, then this rupture is due not only to its impermissible content but simultaneously its form of thinking. This article posits the relationship between the unconscious and conscious not as one between two systems or entities, but rather one regulated through potentialities. In readings of Gradiva and the Orvieto Parapraxis, the work of archeology is positioned as a means to explore the relations between unconscious and conscious thought through the framework of potentiality.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"78 1","pages":"367 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN IMAGO","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2021.0016","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article uses the concept of archeology as a means to understand the problem of the inaccessibility of the unconscious. If unconscious material is absolutely barred from consciousness, as Freud repeatedly maintains, then this rupture is due not only to its impermissible content but simultaneously its form of thinking. This article posits the relationship between the unconscious and conscious not as one between two systems or entities, but rather one regulated through potentialities. In readings of Gradiva and the Orvieto Parapraxis, the work of archeology is positioned as a means to explore the relations between unconscious and conscious thought through the framework of potentiality.
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Founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs, AMERICAN IMAGO is the preeminent scholarly journal of psychoanalysis. Appearing quarterly, AMERICAN IMAGO publishes innovative articles on the history and theory of psychoanalysis as well as on the reciprocal relations between psychoanalysis and the broad range of disciplines that constitute the human sciences. Since 2001, the journal has been edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, who has made each issue a "special issue" and introduced a topical book review section, with a guest editor for every Fall issue.