{"product_id":"the-unpast-paperback-2","title":"The Unpast - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDominique Scarfone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Unpast: The Actual Unconscious, the principal text of this collection, was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe focus of the 2014 Congress of French-Speaking Psychoanalysts. Three\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearlier texts show the progression of his thought which culminated in \"The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnpast\". Scarfone's foreword to this volume begins in this way: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime was a somewhat neglected theme in Freud's nearly fifty-year long study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the unconscious, and he himself deplored this fact in one of his late works: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgain and again I have had the impression that we have made too little\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003etheoretical use of [the] fact, established beyond any doubt, of the\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eunalterability by time of the repressed. This seems to offer an approach to\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe most profound discoveries. Nor, unfortunately, have I myself made\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eany progress here. (1932)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne can only speculate about where a renewed effort on Freud's part would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave led him regarding the \"unalterability by time of the repressed.\" In the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresent series of essays, that idea is embraced again, though from a different\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eangle. Instead of subscribing to the general notion of \"timelessness\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eregarding the unconscious, I take stock of Freud's formulation in the citation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabove. The \"unalterability by time of the repressed\" points at something\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore dynamic or more dialectical than the blunt assertion that the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunconscious is timeless. Indeed, if the unconscious were timeless, one might\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewell wonder how any part of it could be brought into a time-bound form of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexistence. Timelessness points to an unconscious that is out of this world, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhereas \"the unalterability by time of the repressed,\" suggests a different\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estory: time does exist for the unconscious, but somehow the repressed is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprotected from its corrosive effects. The question then becomes what makes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe repressed so sturdy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47359464177913,"sku":"9781942254072","price":53.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tA9xBdxM59781942254072_2293b948-1dcb-4495-88d8-d59d932c5a1f.webp?v=1769877447","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-unpast-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}