The Unpleasure Principle: Freud’s Early Itineraries of the Symptom

Abstract

This paper considers the staying and straying of early Freudian itineraries of the symptom, as they pass through the brambles of the classically delineated neuroses of defense – obsessional neurosis, paranoia, and hysteria. The author hypothesizes a relationship between the current DSM diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and the hysteric’s reckoning with the rim of the traumatic void via boundary ideas, and concludes with a hope for a poetics of the return that would swerve out of the fast lane of pathological aberration, to meet and greet the late aromas of the thorn roses of historical contingency.

Keywords:

• Choice of Illness Keyword: Choice of Illness
• Dialectical Structural Modality as Prophetic Subversion of the DSM Keyword: Dialectical Structural Modality as Prophetic Subversion of the DSM
• Disdain with regard to Disgust Keyword: Disdain with regard to Disgust
• Unpleasure Keyword: Unpleasure
• General Course of Neurotic Illness Keyword: General Course of Neurotic Illness
• Fashion of Return of the Repressed Keyword: Fashion of Return of the Repressed

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