Literary theories psychoanalysis

Frued and Lacan

Author of ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’

Sigmund Freud

Freud’s of decoding

‘fixed key’

Freud on how we can treat dreams in a medical sense

‘dream itself as a symptom’

Technique of Freud’s that resembled literary analysis

‘the wording of the dream’

what does Freud think the dream’s motive is

‘the dream fulfilled certain wishes’

what actually happens in the dream according to Freud

‘manifest content’

What Freud sees as ‘between the manifest content’

‘latent content’

the structure where metaphor works according to Lacan and Freud

‘condensation’

Why Freud thinks there is always a possibility for new meanings

‘impossible to determine the amount of condensation’

What dream wishes reflect for Freud

‘censorship’

Alexander Fanelli on the manifest content of dreams

‘we shall never be able to understand the dream from the manifest content alone’

What Lacan says about the ‘letter’

‘the essentially localized structure of the signifier’

Lacan on a person entering language

‘slave of a discourse in the universal movement of which his place is already inscribed at his birth’

Math equation that Lacan emphasizes

‘signifier/ signified’

Lacan on the inequality of the binary forms of language

‘neither can give ground regarding the one’s unsurpassed excellent without detracting from the other’s glory’

Term Lacan gives to the organization of language

‘signifying chain’

the ‘word-to-word’ interaction that Lacan sees the signifier constitute

‘metonymy’

the ‘one word for another’ interaction that Lacan sees the signifier constitute

‘metaphor’

Gilbert D. Chaikin on Lacan’s mathematical equations

‘any metaphor is, or contains, an implicit predication’

Gilbert D. Chaitin on metonymy and Lacan

‘the metonymic minus always indicates the ‘presence’ of death’