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In Généalogie de psychanalyse, Henry criticizes Ricœur’s De l’interprétation : Essai sur Freud, for being based on an inaccurate premise. According to him, this wrong premise makes Ricœur fail to grasp the essence of the concept of Life developed by Freud. The aim of this article is to specify what aspects of this concept Henry thinks are overlooked by Ricœur, and then to examine what Ricœur himself tried to focus on in making his analysis of Freud’s theory.
A definitely important question for Freud is this : how do drives (Trieb, pulsion) appear to the self ? Henry argues that they appear as affect, one factor of ‘psychic representative’, independently of the other factor, representation, and life drives especially manifest themselves as feeling of anxiety, which survives repression of representations causing internal conflicts. Ricœur, on the contrary, considers representation to be indispensable to manifestation of drives because these can be recognized and interpreted solely through their representations. This view on the role of representation is assumed by Henry to be inaccurate, but seen from the perspective of ‘teleology of consciousness’ Ricœur offers, it proves to be rather plausible. Human consciousness struggles for deeper self-understanding, which can be attained by making sense of representations reflecting one’s own desires or emotions. These desires or emotions, originating from the unconscious, are shaped through consciousness’s interaction with the actual world.
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