Abstract: . . .  psychoanalysis Page 1 Melissa McMahon © 2006 1 PHIL2626 PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Lecture 3, 22 March 2006: Freud on parapraxes, dreams, and symptoms: the language of the unconscious Melissa McMahon © 2006 PT I: FREUD’S THEORY OF THE MECHANISM/‘LANGUAGE’ OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 1. Joining the theory of the symptom to ‘normal’ psychical phenomena 2. . . .
. . .  psychoanalysis Page 1 Melissa McMahon © 2006 1 PHIL2626 PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Lecture 3, 22 March 2006: Freud on parapraxes, dreams, and symptoms: the language of the unconscious Melissa McMahon © 2006 PT I: FREUD’S THEORY OF THE MECHANISM/‘LANGUAGE’ OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 1. Joining the theory of the symptom to ‘normal’ psychical phenomena 2. Parapraxes . . .
. . .  superstitious person believes in ‘inner’ but not ‘external’ chance: “ he knows nothing of the motive of his chance and faulty actions, he believes in the existence of psychic contingencies; he is therefore inclined to attribute meaning to external chance, which manifests itself in actual occurrence, and to see in the accident a means of expression for something hidden outside of him. ”  . . .
. . .  psychological habits – does it matter? Problem of projection/externalisation: superstition and paranoia Wittgenstein also points out that he could ‘free associate’ on a random external group of objects (eg. those on the table) and get to a psychoanalytic motive. does this prove or disprove effectiveness of psychoanalysis ? Later analysts also used random elements in order to act as a ‘sounding board’ for unconscious processes (cf. also ‘word association’) The investment of external objects and situations with meaning (rather than products of the psyche, like dreams etc) reminds us of paranoid and superstitious . . .
. . .  children, brothers and sisters, birth, death, nakedness—and something else besides. ” The “ something else besides ” are the genitals, sexual processes, sexual intercourse, which form the majority of dream symbols. Page 6 Melissa McMahon © 2006 6 Freudian Dream Symbolism (from Lecture X of the Introductory Lectures ) human body as a whole: the house (smooth for men, projections and balconies for women), parents: Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses etc children, brothers and sisters: small animals, vermin birth: water death: departure, journeys nakedness: clothes and uniforms male genitals (and clitoris? . . .
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