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Dissolving the Myth of the Unified Self

The Fate of the Subject in Freudian Analysis

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ID9230574
AuthorsEra A Loewenstein (2150 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume63
Issue4
Pages715-732
Publication date1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21674086.1994.11927434
PMID7846188
OpenAlexW2415672104
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

Employing Lacan's conception of desire, this paper explores the distinction between self and subjectivity as it emerges in the psychoanalytic situation. Challenging the notion of the self as a singular, coherent, and bounded entity, I demonstrate, through a review of Dora's case, that the "Freudian subject" is a cast of characters, a loose net of contextual, contradictory, and shifting identifications enveloping not a discrete core, but its very absence

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,12
Citation span2000 - 2005 (6)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
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