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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.
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 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 ...
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 provided not only a map and topographical representation but an ingenious system for its exploration. However, paradoxically, Freud the ...
The Secrets of the Dark Continent. “Descent” by Stephen Mosblech. Summary: The present paper discusses the reasons for the termination of the psychoanalytic treatment of a neurotic woman. The patient presented early enough the layout of a hysterical neurosis, built around the question of femininity, for posing which various triangles were created.
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanl...
