Freud’s achievement

http://problemi.si/issues/p2017-1/problemi_international_2017_01.pdf#page=7



Psychoanalysis is NOT a return to a new kind of premodern hermeneutics in search of the unknown deep layers of meaning which regulate the apparently meaningless flow of our lives.

Psychoanalysis is not a new version of the ancient interpretation of dreams searching for deeper messages hidden in them.

Our psychic life is thoroughly open to unexpected traumatic encounters.

Its unconscious processes are a domain of contingent signifying displacements.

There is no inner truth in the core of our being, only a cobweb of proton pseudos, primordial lies called “fundamental fantasies.”

The task of the psychoanalytic process is not to reconcile ourselves with the phantasmatic core of our being but to “traverse” it, to acquire a distance towards it…

This brief description makes it clear how psychoanalysis relates to modern science.

Psychoanalysis tries to re-subjectivize the universe of science, to discern the contours of a subject that fits modern science, a subject that fully participates in the contingent and meaningless “grey world” of the sciences.