can anyone help me find a text by freud that explores the idea of self... of "i" and "the subject" ....of how we are subject to language...or his ideas on the "i think" like his theory of the unconscious? if this makes sense then cool... i need help for a project...y'see also the idea that human emotion is constricted due to thought and theory... that kinda garb..... also thinking abotu thinking.....cool....in fact any writer im willing to look at .... cheers my dears
I notice you live in Surrey, so I recommend that you take a little trip to London which is not far. Saturday will be a good day, but never on a Sunday. Do a bit of shopping in the morning so it's not a wasted trip then about lunchtime take the Jubilee Line to Swiss Cottage, (or you can take the 13 bus if you prefer a rickety ride past Lords). There's a massive library very close by. As you're coming out of the station there are 3/4 exits. Take the first one left. At the top of the stairs turn left again and it's about 150 yards away. Go in the library and go to the second floor. There is a quiet sealed room on the far corner. Don't worry about going in. You're allowed. Inside they've got almost every single text published by Freud, Jeung and Addler. If you're nice to the librarian she will also help you find exactly what you need to complete your thesis. Some of the books cannot be taken out because they're rare, which is another reason that you should pay a visit there, as you'll find information that's off the bone, or in this case off the cerebellum. If you finish your notes and have time to spare, the house where Freud spent the last years of his life is a little further down the road towards Hampstead Heath (they'll give you directions at the library). They've turned it into a small museum, nothing special, but it's a bit of an analyst' s Mecca shall we say. There's also a bookshop in Finchley Road that specializes in Psychotherapy manuals if you want to part with some of your shillings. If your other half's got a few bob in his sky rocket and you're hungry go into Benehanas, next to the station. Ask for Rupert to make the special with lobster and fillet mignon and give him my regards. Tell him the nutter from Greece sent you there, he'll remember. And to round it off, go have a pint at the Swiss Cottage pub, right next to the big Odeon Cinema, opposite the library. It's normally quiet in there and they have big armchairs where you can sprawl out and go over your notes. I could give you the answers you want, but if you're truly interested in psychology then you will enjoy this little day trip much much more. I am so jealous of you. You live so close! Good luck. Let us know how you get on. PS. What are you actually studying for?
The issues you talk about are not well address by Freaud, i suggest you look into the philosophies of Wittgenstein.
Jacques Lacan, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconcious," and Julia Kristeva, "Psychoanalysis and the Polis are likely exactly what you are looking for. In fact I think most theorists involved in pyschoanalytic literary/critical theory deal in depth with this idea if I understood you correctly.
thanks ppl i realise i was rubbish at explaining what i meant i am now doing "the unameable" by samuel beckett and talking about identity adn the search for it...and how we cannot be 'individual' but 'subjects' to life and language...how we ourselves as an art are not original...we are conditioned by exterior forces....i shall also talk about the ego in terms of freud as a little touch point....i shall look at more psychoanalytic theory tho...i have today...i like gadamers truth and method.
oh and spyder....i read that stuff on hermeneutics (sp?) that u sent me....fascinating....i loved it and went to the library and got lost for an hour or so....looking up more.
