Boundaries of Reflexivity. Freud's account of the subject's autonomy
Boundaries of Reflexivity. Freud's account of the subject's autonomy

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with various forms of boundaries of reflexivity, as established in the three classic works by Sigmund Freud. These limits are related to the theory of the subject and its history, to the origins of symbol and prohibition, narrativised by Freud in the myth of the ‘primal horde’, and with distrust in conventional reflexive practices. It shows that Freud's project does not aim to show the impossibility of insight and reflection, but rather that standard forms of reflexivity are illusory, because they do not take into account the structure of the subject. It is argued that psychoanalysis offers its own, emancipatory form of reflexivity, submitted to theoretical rigour.

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