Introduction: Speculations of the Unconscious: Encounters between Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Arts
Introduction: Speculations of the Unconscious: Encounters between Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Arts
Author(s): Arleen Ionescu, Laurent Milesi, Edward WaysbandSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Fiction, Aesthetics, Novel, Short Story, Comparative Study of Literature, Contemporary Philosophy, German Idealism, Existentialism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Theory of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: unconscious; Karl Marx; Sigmund Freud; Friedrich Nietzsche; philosophy; psychoanalysis; literature; arts;
Summary/Abstract: The unconscious (das Unbewusste; etymologically, that which is unknown) is a relatively modern concept that naturalized areas of the unknown previously explored by literature, mythology, and metaphysics. Each in their own domain, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, the three ‘masters of suspicion’ (according to Paul Ricoeur), debunked the hubristic claims of modern rational consciousness, exposing its social, existential and psychological grey zones. 1 Inspired by, yet critiquing humanity’s confidence in the power of reason, their acknowledgement of the limits of the Enlightenment is emblematized in Freud’s charting of the conflictual relations between the orderly ego and the unruly id.
Journal: Word and Text, A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
- Issue Year: XIII/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-11
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
