The Subject of the Dialectic
Some Consequences of Freud's Bisexuality Thesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21374493 |
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| Authors | Thomas Olver (Pretoria, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-286 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2836 • E-ISSN: 1943-3301 |
| Publisher | Guilford Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1521/prev.2023.110.3.259 |
| PMID | 37695800 |
| OpenAlex | W4386617117 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
On the basis of a previous reading (Olver, 2023) of Freud's work that reveals a bisexuality thesis, the author discusses several interrelated consequences of this thesis, including the nature of desire and primal unity, a restatement of shame, the semiotic model, and the emergence of society and the economy with reference to the ego and the superego. These consequences together encapsulate and describe the dialectic of the subject. The author shows how dialectic movement is arrested by various acts of nomination, most notably the nomination of heterosexuality in the forms of sexual reproduction and financial profit that become social and economic master values in modernity. Only by keeping the dialectic open can the subject do justice to its inherent and revolutionary bisexual nature, not in the sense of transgression but rather in pursuit of the nonnomination that is the permanent becoming of a dialectic self
Aesthetics · Dialectic · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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