Abstract
Psychoanalysis has a viewpoint that considers neurotic symptom as the distorted expression of Oedipus complex. It aims at discovering patient's particular complex to cure neurosis, by analyzing the data of free-associations, dreams, and emotional actions which are assumed to be the same expressions of unconscious cause as symptom.
The viewpoint mentioned above shapes a perspective, and people sharing this perspective construct “psychoanalysis world as a social world”. The world has been constructed on the basis of S. Freud's view of natural sciences. But in the process of this construction, a theory of his, screen-memory theory, was screened and excluded from the history of psychoanalytic perspective, because the meaning implicit in this theory contradicted Freud's scientific view and seemed to ruin the basis of analytic perspective. To screen and exclude the theory, psychoanalysis needed to invent the true cause of neurosis, namely Oedipus complex, which was premised to rule and determine the symptoms, discourses, and actions of patient. By this invention, psychoanalysis intended to hold the status of natural science that is assumed to “discover” the “objective truth”. But, because of screening and excluding of screen-memory theory, psychoanalysis world has been unstable. Therefore, its perspective needs to be shared not only by analyst but by patient, and the participants in the world try to prove to themselves that their “truth” is right. This paper purposes to describe and discuss some other features of psychoanalysis world by bringing its perspective into focus.
