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The evocative phrase dark continent connotes a geographic space that is murky and deep, one that defies understanding. Freud borrowed the expression from the African explorer John Rowlands Stanley's description of the exploration of a dark forest — virgin, hostile, impenetrable.
Abstract. This chapter develops the idea about the importance of genre by comparing texts by Freud and Conrad, specifically in terms of their engagement with (notions of) the ‘dark continent’. It begins by examining elements of Africanism in Freud's works of psychoanalytic theory.
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 ...
More than two decades after the publication of her case, and having in between studied the question of female sexuality as this was discussed by female psychoanalysts, he described the woman’s sexual life as a “dark continent” for psychology (Freud, 1926e, p. 212) –a very appropriate term for the Catherine’s case.
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanl...
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...
The conquistador of my title, however, is Freud, the self proclaimed conqueror of an inner world: the dark continent, also his phrase, refers to women's experience of sexuality and relationships.
