"A failure of translation is what we know clinically as 'repression. The motive for it is always a release of unpleasure which would result from a translation; it is as though this unpleasure provokes a disturbance of thought which forbids the process of translation." FREUD
Read MoreThis sudden urge to drive off somewhere had brought me to a forest. And there was another way of talking, according to which something, something or another, led, whatever that might mean, to something else, yes, something else… (J.F)
Read More88 years ago last weekend, June 13th Freud arrived in London on exile from Vienna. The Nazis had allowed him take his papers and some personal property, but confiscated much of his money and property in Vienna. He later dreams of…
“The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it… “
Freud, S. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Standard Edition, Vol. 18, pp. 7-64). London: Hogarth.
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Read MoreEpisode 3: I called it a "mustard" pot in order to point out that, far from necessarily containing any, it is precisely because it is empty that it takes on its value as a mustard pot.
Read MoreEpisode 2: Mr Miličević ate his sandwich, fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust, pungent mustard and the feety savour of green cheese.
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