THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD » Double Bind

Freud’s Oedipal Bind-2

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:49:35 +0000

In one sense at least, and as far as Oedipus is concerned, Freud could not have been any more inconsistent for having remained silent about a presumably blinding truth while advocating speech as the principal instrument of insight. There is nothing triumphal about such an observation since Freud’s was not a logical inconsistency, let alone …

Freud’s Oedipal Bind-1

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:38:01 +0000

Though reverential, Freud’s investment in the Sophoclean script as a founding principle of psychological activity is not without its ironies. Freud understood the myth as a representation and, in so doing, broke his own golden rule of never mistaking manifest content for latent thought or symptom for process. Much more significantly, though, Freud thought he …