Title: Potentiality and Uncovering: The Impenetrability of the Unconscious
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.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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