“at the very end of the Interpretation of Dreams, Freud admitted that “Whether we can attribute reality to unconscious wishes I cannot say” “a descriptive unconscious from the unconscious as he saw it – a separate system that has a distinct character and plays by different rules.
(1) The centrality of text and inscription as a method for interpreting dreams and other unconscious associations, And extending from that, the difference between meaning and "communicative finality" (a phrase I am struggling with: does it mean the "load-bearing point" is unclear? How can meaning have no meaning?).
This article by Hewitson (2017) is particularly valuable to readers who are unfamiliar with the history of discourse on conscious and unconscious minds in psychoanalytic thought. Hewitson highlights three important dates (1915, 1928, 1960) in psychoanalytic history which have altered and/or transformed how theorists have thought about unconsciousness and consciousness. Hewitson discusses several prominent thinkers in his writing: Freud, Politzer, Laplanche, Lacan, Leclaire. These thinkers were critical to developing contemporary theories on what the unconscious and conscious minds are.
I arrived at the end of this article with a distinct feeling of "Totally, yes, this seems like a good synthesis of the three major psychoanalytic dialectics being juxtaposed." AND, I found myself thinking, BUT, would this track across other cultures, types of ability, cognitive developments, etc.?Both Wilson and Hewitson discuss the unconscious as processes and systems of processes and entanglements and engagements and of things which don't simply add on top of one another but combine and synthesize into entirely new realities/sciences/dialectics.
1915: "divide the dream into two 'text's - the manifest text, the part Freud remembers when he wakes up, and the latent text, the thoughts and associations that come to him when thinking about the dream. Rather than one being conscious and the other unconscious, it's clear that both texts' are in fact conscious or perfectly capable of becoming conscious. So we have to look for the unconscious in a system that operates on the connection between the two" Common currency of two systems (conscious + unconscious): thought.
