[How does Freud speak to us?].

Abstract

For well over a decade I have been exploring certain psychodynamic aspects of Freud's discourse and their implications, which tend to be scotomized by an ideologically-driven organizational psychoanalysis. Ideally there should be a continuity between the more circumscribed communicative scene of clinical psychoanalysis and the broader scene of communication with one's psychoanalyti-cally oriented colleagues. More specifically, a historical framework stretching from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century helps to highlight the distinctivness of that kind of discourse which Freud preferred to use. In particular, it was one which stimulated and facilitated both the associative and critical processes of Freud in the act of writing, and ours as well in the act of reading him. Such a discourse not only describes but also enacts psychic activity on the conscious, preconscious and unconscious levels. There is ultimately a democratic spirit in such expression, which I have pointedly called elsewhere Freud's prose of solidarity, and alternately, Freud's policy of a non-apartheid lexicality.