Freud’s Disputable Dream
Freud’s Disputable Dream

Author(s): Jasna Koteska
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Summary/Abstract: THE ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPANDING THE NOTION OF THE SUBJECT. IT STARTS FROM REOPENING THE STATUS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN FREUD' WORK, BASED ON HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO ANALYZE THE FIRST DREAM FROM THE LAST CHAPTER OF HIS BOOK ‘THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS’. LACAN'S INTERPRETATION OF THIS DREAM CONTAINS, AMONG OTHERS, THE IDEA OF A LOOSE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SUBJECT OF THE DREAM AND THE SUBJECT OF BEING AWAKE. HERE, WE PROPOSE THE EXPANDING OF THE NOTION OF THE SUBJECT TO THE MORE RADICAL ENTITIES, LIKE THE "SUBJECTDREAM" AND THE "SUBJECT-HALLUCINATION". IT NOT ONLY SOLVES THE ENIGMA WITH THE DISPUTABLE DREAM IN FREUD, BUT IT ALSO SHAPES THE MORE CLEAR ONTIC SUBSTANCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS. THIS RADICALISATION CAN LEAD US TO SEVERAL IMPORTANT REVISIONS OF THE THEORIES ON THE PRE-OEDIPAL SUBJECT. A SUMMARY THAT WE SUGGEST IN RELATION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SUBJECTIVITY WOULD FIRST AND FOREMOST BE THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH SCALABILITY, AND NOT WITH A SPECTACULAR IMAGE (THE LACANIAN "MIRROR STAGE"). AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW CLASS OF NEURONS, THE "MIRRORNEURONS" IN 1996, WHICH PROVED THERE IS A STRONG, PRIMITIVE AND UNMEDIATED DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SUBJECT AND THE OTHER, THESE THEORETICAL REVISIONS COULD BECOME CENTRAL TO FURTHER RETHINKING OF THE NOTIONS OF THE SUBJECT.

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