RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Metaphor, Michel De Certeau
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Place (concrete location, material) vs. space (more abstract) Psychoanalytic setting: looks inviting, statues/ antiquities/ busts. Freud received couch from an early patient, first used in family context, then moved it to his practice when his decided that it was best for patients to lie down and invite free associations. Cultural connotations: couch introduced in european private home gather, rate, place of erotic desires. Couch becomes/ can be considered as an archive of psychoanalysis: space/ place where patients are invited to engage in the talking cure. A sits behind p lying on couch. Derida: (cid:498)metaphore solide(cid:499) (cid:523)solid metaphor(cid:524: doctor prevents hiw own unconscious from being too active, uses a metaphor to explain the mechanism of the talking cure, 3 notions of the unconscious in the room: doctors, patients, and the. F introduces something he gets from a patient into psychoanalytic thought/ notion.
