Vol 20 (3) 2002
Oedipus. Myth and Tragedy – John Devreker
Oedipus, with or without his “Complex”, the Myth of the Male Truth – Freddy Decreus
Oedipus, Freud’s dream – Christian Demoulin
“The Readiness is All” or How Shakespeare Read Freud – Filip Geerardyn
Freud and the Lodge “Wien” of the B’nai B’rith. On the Modernity of the Reflections on Jewish Identity – Willy Szafran
Some Thoughts on “Empty” and/or “Full” Speech – Julien Quackelbeen
Time in obsessional neurosis – Mark Adriaensen
Psychoanalysis and Education: Is it possible to fail successfully? An exploration starting from D.W. Winnicott – Jeroen Donckers
On the enchantment of angels, some remarks on love at first sight – David Van Bunder
On the enchantment of angels, some remarks on love at first sight
This paper examines the temporal and spatial properties of enchanted discourse on love at first sight. The encounter with the object of desire is almost always presented as a sudden, unexpected event. Based on Barthes' Fragments d'un discours amoureux, Slauerhoff's De...
Psychoanalysis and Education: Is it possible to fail successfully? An exploration starting from D.W. Winnicott
According to Freud, psychoanalysis and education are considered as two impossible professions, both necessarily failing on the rock of castration. At this point the subject has to create an original construct. It is argued that the theoretical concepts good enough...
Time in obsessional neurosis
The way in which obsessional neurosis is dominated by the attempt of the subject to liberate itself from the grasp of the mother is illustrated with a fragment from the analysis of an obsessional man. Both the castration of the mother and the problematic character of...
Some Thoughts on “Empty” and/or “Full” Speech
Starting from the effects of the power of speech, the relation between free association and "full speech" is questioned. It is argued that, whereas "empty speech" (i) confirms the very necessity of speech and (ii), establishes or re-establishes the social bond, "full...
Freud and the Lodge “Wien” of the B’nai B’rith. On the Modernity of the Reflections on Jewish Identity
What are the characteristics of the Jewish identity when it is not inscribed in religious tradition? Reviewing the history of the international B'nai B'rith and Freud's activities in the lodge "Wien", his Jewishness and his Jewish identity are discussed in reference...
“The Readiness is All” or How Shakespeare Read Freud
Referring to Freud's correspondence with Wilhelm Fließ, it is argued that Freud did not so much "apply" clinical insight concerning his own archaic and incestuous desires onto literature, i.e., Hamlet (Shakespeare) and Oedipus Rex (Sophocles). On the contrary, it was...
Oedipus, Freud’s dream
It is argued that Freud's analysis of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex should be read in the context of his Interpretation of Dreams. There it figures in the chapter on typical dreams of the death of beloved persons, dreams from which Freud infers a murderous desire directed to...
Oedipus, with or without his “Complex”, the Myth of the Male Truth
The story of Oedipus has been used throughout the ages in a variety of ways, by both artists and scholars. In this paper, the author highlights the host of aspects and motives which have turned this story into a myth, a tragedy and a very popular literary model in...
Oedipus. Myth and Tragedy
It is argued that, originally, archaic desire for the mother and hate for the father, i.e., the feelings referred to by Freudian psychoanalysis in its theory of the Oedipus complex, were not implied in the Greek myth. Having defined (i) the latter as a complex and...