IN THE FRAME OF ANXIETY / AT THE STAGE OF PHANTASMS. PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CHILDHOOD FEARS, OR BEHIND GRANDFATHER FREUD’S BACK

Анотація

This text may be of interest to both proponents of intellectual literature in general and sympathizers of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis in particular. However, the promise of an intellectual game is already implied by the title of the story: the terrain ‘behind Dr. Freud’s back’ concerns those psychoanalysts who have transformed his teachings in many ways. Their traces accompany both the scriptor and the character of his session, a child at a crisis age (six and a half years old): in the aspect described by the author of philosophical (structural) psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan, those who behind Freud / after Freud, emerging in the mirror stage of child’s development behind their back, turn out to be possible analogues of that universal symbolic Other, which, in relation to the Ideal Self and the Self-Ideal, brings to the stage their fantasy about the most important loss / the greatest desire to return – the agalma. As a parallel to mother’s womb, it has a figurative equivalent in the story, that is an abandoned, waterless pool.