{"product_id":"the-unpast-9781942254072","title":"The Unpast","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Unconscious in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50458060914962,"sku":"9781942254072","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_59eebcb9-f989-4567-bd69-0441abb75a23.jpg?v=1729950966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unpast-9781942254072","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}