Konturen: Vol 3 (2010)
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Borderlines in Psychoanalysis2024-03-28T14:06:50ZIntroduction: Reason, Unreason, and the Epistemology of the Borderline
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Introduction: Reason, Unreason, and the Epistemology of the Borderline
Librett, Jeffrey S.
4 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZIntro: On the Exclusion of Madness from Reason: Between History and Philosophy
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Intro: On the Exclusion of Madness from Reason: Between History and Philosophy
Librett, Jeffrey S.
14 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZKeeping Narcissism at Bay: Kant and Schiller on the Sublime
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Keeping Narcissism at Bay: Kant and Schiller on the Sublime
Mathäs, Alexander
This essay considers the sublime as a veiled form of narcissism. Both narcissism and the sublime
test and reveal the limits of the concept of the self and both can be viewed as attempts to
transcend the borders of the self. Yet while narcissism has been defined as a “failure of spiritual
ascent” (Hadot), the sublime has been used to transcend the limitations of the self by pointing
to its infinite potential. The essay explores how the sublime in Immanuel Kant’s and Friedrich
Schiller’s aesthetics relies on narcissistic impulses by creating a male inner self and protecting it
from the stigma of vanity. I propose that their use of this aesthetic category helped objectify an
essentially subjectivist aesthetics. Yet while Schiller follows Kant in deriding the sensual aspects
of human nature as egotistical and amoral, Schiller’s dramas also challenge some of the
Kantian premises. When Schiller’s protagonists sacrifice lives in the service of ethical ideas, the
sublime’s oppressive spirit reveals itself.
25 pages
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZAnxiety: The Uncanny Borderline of Psychoanalysis?
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Anxiety: The Uncanny Borderline of Psychoanalysis?
Weber, Samuel
Freud begins his well-known essay on the Uncanny with a disclaimer that raises the question
of why he writes the essay in the first place. This text argues that the explanation is to be
found in the shift his thinking was undergoing at the time, not only in moving "Beyond the
Pleasure Principle" but also in rethinking its relation to Anxiety.
18 pages
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