KROGH, K.Von.:
"Nachträglichkeit" in Patients' Dreams
Von Krogh, Kjell, Bjorbekk, Norway
(Presented at the Conference «FREUD'S SCREEN MEMORIES in the Light of the Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences» in Prague, May 4-6, 2006)
Annotation
Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast,
erwirbt es, um es zu besitzen
Goethe,Faust , Part 1, Scene 1. SE 23 p. 207
"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."
Virgil [Aneid,VII,312]. SE 5, p, 608-609
The paper aims to recover a central concept in Freud's thinking from what appears partial oblivion, i.e. the concept of "nachträglich", a term that Freud used " … repeatedly and constantly, often underlining it." ( Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.B., 1988, p. 111) - in substantial form "Nachträglichkeit".
The text deals with:
Epistemological implications (Sandler, P.C. (2006). p. 179 - 202) of "nachträglich"; maintaining preference for Freud's German "Nachträglich" vs. the English 'deferred action' (Modell, A.H.(1990). p.2-4, 15-19; French 'apprès - coup' (Laplanche & Pontalis, p. 111) ; why Freud attached such importance to the concept of "… memory traces being subjected from time to time to a re-arrangement in accordance with fresh circumstances - to a re-transcription." - "… that memory is present not once but several times over, …". SE 1, p.233; significance of the concept for psychoanalytic thinking, and for dream interpretation in particular; investigation of possible "Nachträglichkeit" in Freud's two versions of the 'funeral dream'. SE 1, p.233; SE 4 , p, 317 - 318; and in selected dream specimens from patients in psychoanalysis/psychotherapy; Freud's discovery that: " (a)Memory is far more comprehensive in dreams than in waking life."SE 23, p. 166. Why? Dreams and Screen Memories. SE 3, p, 301 - 322; the implications of Freud's archaic heritage surfacing in dreams. "(d) dreams bring to light material that cannot have originated either from the dreamer's adult life or from his forgotten childhood. We are obliged to regard it as part of the archaic heritage, which the child brings with him into the world, before any experience of his own, influenced by the experience of his ancestors. We find the counterpart of this phylogenetic material in the earliest human legends and in surviving customs."(italics.mine. KvK). Thus dreams constitute a source of human prehistory which is not to be despised." SE 23, p. 166-167 ; W.R.Bion(1989)., The Grid and the Oedipus myth., p.17-21, p.42-47; Freud's foresight of recent neuroscientific discovery of 'explicit' vs. 'implicit', 'prosodic' memory systems . (Mancia,M.(2006) p. 84) ; Mancia maintains that he (Freud) ' …(wrongly) considered this kind of memory as another expression of primal repression.(ibid. p.87). Did he?(see above:(d) "archaic heritage"). SE 23, p. 167.
Sequence of issues:
I. Epistemological aspects of "Nachträglichkeit" in Dream Interpretation;
II. "Nachträglichkeit" in Dreams and 'psychoanalytic archeology'. Screen Memories and Memory in Dreams;
III. Unconscious "nachträglich"psychic web transferences?;
IV, Archaic heritage - "nachträgliche" ' DNA - dreams' : B's archaic dream.
V. How to discover psychic vestiges of archaic origin in dreams? Therapeutic significance. Cfr.Goethe's Faust.SE 23 (above). Discussion.
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