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The archiving that RDS seeks to practice is not simply to “save” or “preserve” but primarily to provide grounds for further questions, working with people to take care of the data while also documenting to understand the processes, relations and considerations at play. The point of this kind of an archive is to scaffold a deutero capacity to think about the world and support a rethinking of habituated ways of understanding the world.

I (Angela Okune) began to conceptualize establishing an instance of PECE in the middle of 2018, about 6 months prior to beginning my fieldwork in Nairobi in January 2019. I conceptualized the development of the RDS qualitative data archive under three distinct rationales. First, I saw it as an elicitation device and grounds for collaborative discussion and engagement, imagining that the deliberations about the archive that I would have with those in the field would be a basis for my learning.

“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.

I love a good ghost story."Taking such reading-effects into consideration, we shall here undertake a reading of the text which will at the same time be articulated with a reading of its readings. This two-level reading - which also must return upon itself... What is the nature of a reading-effect as such? and by extension: what is reading? What does the text have to say about its own reading?" (102)"sexuality is rhetoric, since it essentially consists of ambiguity: it is the coexistence of dynamically antagonistic meanings.

Felman writes about Freudian interpretations of “The Turn of the Screw” in this article. While Felman centers “The Turn of the Screw” in her discussion, ultimately she engages in broader questions about Freudian and psychoanalytic reading. What does it mean to do a Freudian reading of literature? What constitutes “Freudian” and what value does it present?

“Indeed if the artistic value of such an experiment be measured by the intellectual echoes it may again, long after, set in motion, the case would make in favour of this little firm fantasy-which I seem to see draw behind it today a train of associations.