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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.
5 maj 2017 · He regarded femininity as a "dark continent," aware that his formulations concerning women were highly controversial and subject to future transformation.
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanl...
Freud is known for his wide-ranging theories on matters such as the unconscious, dreams, infantile sexuality, libido, repression, and transference —all of which continue to influence the field of...
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.
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 ...
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.
