Freud’s Chows. On transcendental stupidity : a case study

Authors

  • Federico Rodríguez Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7213/aurora.26.039.AO05

Abstract

This text explores the problem of transcendental stupidity in Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida’s works, seeking to combine it with (1) the paradoxical figure of Oedipus (the original complex) in psychoanalytical and philosophical tradition and (2) the symptomatic situation of some important animals (wolf and dog, symbols of wild and domestic life [i.e.: Freud’s Wolfs, Freud’s Chow-Chows]) in analyses and therapies. The case of the Man of the Wolves (der Wolfmann), the case of Mr. Sergei K. Pankejeff described in Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose, a fundamental dream in contemporary culture history, would be the point of departure.

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Published

2014-04-28

How to Cite

Rodríguez, F. (2014). Freud’s Chows. On transcendental stupidity : a case study. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 26(39), 799–818. https://doi.org/10.7213/aurora.26.039.AO05