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When Freud picks out the phrase ‘dark continent’, it may, then, signal a certain self-consciousness: perhaps about the phrase's precise (imperial) origin, and perhaps about its metaphoricity.
Freud’s use of the term “dark continent” to signify female sexuality is a recurrent theme in feminist theory. The phrase transforms female sexuality into an unexplored territory, an enigmatic, unknowable place concealed from the theoretical gaze and hence the epistemological power of the psychoanalyst. Femininity confounds knowledge while ...
22 maj 2007 · Freud, a self‐described ‘conquistador’, discovered the workings of that great ‘dark continent’ the unconscious mind. Using Reason and Science to shed light on the ‘terra incognita’ within us, he pr...
A well-known example from Freud’s own clinical practice is the failure in the treatment of Dora, a young hysterical woman the founder of psychoanalysis treated for about three months in late 1900 (1905e).
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanl...
22 kwi 2003 · Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to...
