RHETOR 104 Chapter 11: R104 Freud and the scene of writing
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Freud: repression neither repels, nor flees, nor excludes an exterior force; it contains an nterior representation. Repressions that have failed have more claim on our interest. Repression of writing as the repression of that which threatens presence and mastering of absence. Distinction between mastering of absence as speech and mastering of absence of writing writing within speech, hallucination as speech and hallucination as writing. Logocentric repression permits an understanding of how an original and individual repression became possible within the horizon of a culture and a historical structure of belonging. Aim to isolate elements of psychoanalysis, which can only uneasily be contained within logocentric closure. Life is already threatened by the origin of the memory, which constitutes it, and by breaching which it resists, the effraction which it can contain only by repeating it. There is no breaching without a beginning of pain. Life protects itself by repetition, trace, difference (deferral) (cid:498)pain leaves behind it particularly rich breaches(cid:499)
