Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan
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Mar 25, 2020 Anouchka Grose, psychoanalyst and writer, discusses Freud's 'discovery' of the unconscious and Lacan's language-like unconscious. Topics include symptom formation, Freud's concept of the sixth screen, the relationship between words and the unconscious, and the complexity of sexuality in family dynamics.
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Three Systems Of The Mind
- Freud mapped conscious, preconscious and unconscious as distinct systems that communicate through translations.
- The preconscious mediates what can become conscious by linking ideas to words and resisting unacceptable impulses.
Drives Need Ideas To Exist
- Drives must be represented by ideas to be knowable; raw drives alone are not conscious content.
- Talking of 'repressed drives' is shorthand; Freud insists on 'unconscious ideas' as the real psychical units.
Hypnosis Demonstrates Symptom Rationalization
- Bernheim's hypnotic experiment asked subjects to behave as if a room was full of furniture and they later invented explanations for odd movements.
- Grose uses this to illustrate how symptoms rationalize impossible internal commands into plausible conscious stories.