Towards the XXth NLS Psychoanalysis Congress – Fixation & repetition – July 2022 – Zurich, Switzerland.
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Date: 10 March 2022 at 13:47:43 GMT
Towards the XXth NLS Psychoanalysis Congress – Fixation & repetition – July 2022 – Zurich, Switzerland
Our German-speaking colleagues from the Berlin Initiative (LOB) and the Vienna Initiative (NLF) formed cartels and delved into Freud’s ‘Gesammelten Werken’ in search of the concepts of ‘fixation’ and ‘repetition’.
You will find them in the ‘Orientation‘ (https://nlscongress2022.amp-nls.org/orientation ) section.
The reference to the G.W. should make it possible to find the place and context of the quotation in the translations of Freud’s work in French and English .
References
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SE II p92 : Studies on Hysteria: 1893-1895 : Sigmund Freud & Josef Breuer, SE II, Part II, Case 2 : Frau Emmy von N.,
See this site /3 Sigmund Freud (18930101 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
Rybnicki Footnotes 1 & 3.
Rybnicki, this text, “It may further be assumed that it was her horror at the noise produced against her will that made the moment a traumatic one, and fixed the noise itself as a somatic mnemic symptom of the whole scene.” [1]
In fact, the link to the real is already striking in the very early remarks of Freud by his use of the term Fixierung. We can see the presence of bodily effects in producing Fixierung. In A Case of Successful Treatment by Hypnotism2 he speaks of fixation by repetition of the noise produced by the mother’s tongue, or in the case of Emmy[3] the arbitrary coincidence of pain and exhaustion.
Footnote [1] Freud S., Frau Emmy von N., Case Histories from Studies on Hysteria (1893), The Standard Edition of the complete psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol. I. Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886–1899), London, The Hogarth Press, p. 92.
Footnote [3] 3 Op.cit. Freud S. (1893), p. 92
SE II p92 : Sigmund Freud: Studies on Hysteria: 1893-1895, SE II, Part II, Case 2 : Frau Emmy von N., Age 40, from Livonia by Sigmund Freud SE II p48 : Published bilingual at https://www.freud2lacan.com/freud-philosophy/ /15. STUDIES ON HYSTERIA—with Breuer’s original case history sent to Robert Binswanger in Kreuzlingen
See Studies on Hysteria : 1893-1895 : Sigmund Freud on this site /3 Sigmund Freud (18930101 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
SE II p92 It may further be assumed that it was her horror at the noise produced against her will that made the moment a traumatic one, and fixed the noise itself as a somatic mnemic symptom of the whole scene. I believe, indeed, that the character of the tic itself, consisting as it did of a succession of sounds which were convulsively emitted and separated by pauses and which could be best likened to clackings, reveals traces of the process to which it owed its origin.
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A Case of Successful Treatment by Hypnotism: With Some Remarks on the Origin of Hysterical Symptoms through ‘Counter-Will’ : 1892-1893 : Sigmund Freud
SE I p115-128
Rybnicki, In fact, the link to the real is already striking in the very early remarks of Freud by his use of the term Fixierung. We can see the presence of bodily effects in producing Fixierung. In A Case of Successful Treatment by Hypnotism [2] he speaks of fixation by repetition of the noise produced by the mother’s tongue, …
[2] Freud S., A Case of Successful Treatment by Hypnotism (1892), The Standard Edition of the complete psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol. I. Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886–1899), London, The Hogarth Press. p. 115–128.
Editor’s Introduction, James Strachey, SE I p116:
The present translation is a slightly corrected version of the one published in 1950.
This paper was almost exactly contemporaneous with the Breuer and Freud ‘Preliminary Communication’ (1893a). Some of the ideas in it (e.g. the ‘counter-will’) have a place in Freud’s later work, and it forms something of a link between his writings on hypnotism and those on hysteria upon which he was embarking. The view that ‘a moment of disposition to hysteria’-in this instance, physical fatigue-provides the opportunity for the counter-will to assert itself suggests the influence of Breuer and the ‘hypnoid state’. (See p. 126.)
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SE II p93 (Studies on Hysteria) Part II, Case 2 : Frau Emmy von N.
Rybnicki, this text, Later in the same text, he writes of the horror of producing a noise against her will.4 By that, the noise becomes traumatic and fixates itself as a bodily (in German leiblich, is related to the flesh) remainder symptom of the entire scenario.
4 Ibid.
4. SE II p92 : Sigmund Freud: Studies on Hysteria: 1893-1895, SE II, Part II, Case 2 : Frau Emmy von N., Age 40, from Livonia by Sigmund Freud SE II p48 : Published bilingual at https://www.freud2lacan.com/freud-philosophy/ /15. STUDIES ON HYSTERIA—with Breuer’s original case history sent to Robert Binswanger in Kreuzlingen
See Studies on Hysteria : 1893-1895 : Sigmund Freud on this site /3 Sigmund Freud (18930101 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
SE II p93, possibly, These two symptoms, the clacking and the stammering, which were thus closely related through the history of their origin, continued to be associated and were turned into chronic symptoms after being repeated on a similar occasion. Thereafter they were put to a further use. Having originated at a moment of violent fright, they were thenceforward joined to any fright (in accordance with the mechanism of monosymptomatic hysteria which will be described in Case 5 [SE II p149f.], even when the fright could not lead to an antithetic idea being put into effect.
The two symptoms were eventually linked up with so many traumas, had so much reason for being reproduced in memory, that they perpetually interrupted the patient’s speech for no particular cause, in the manner of a meaningless tic.
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Rybnicki Footnotes [5] & [6]
Rybnicki (this text) So, Freud connects fixation with the trauma, with Lacan we can grasp that he connects it with the real. In many places such as in The Interpretation of Dreams [5] or in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality [6] fixation relates to the intensity of libido, of erogenous zones of the body which is libidinally cathected and by that easily arousable (in German it is besetzt or Haftbarkeit, which is closer to the flesh of the body).
5. SE IV & V, bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com /homepage (The complete bilingual of THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS and ON DREAMS
Chapters I-V, Chapter V, Chapter VI, Chapter VII, ON DREAMS; Bibliographies, Indices) For detailed references see https://nlscongress2022.amp-nls.org/orientation
See The Interpretation of Dreams : 6th November 1899 (published as 1900) : Sigmund Freud SE IV & V, See www.LacanianWorks.org /3 Sigmund Freud (November 1899)
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6. SE VII p123-245 Bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com /homepage (THREE ESSAYS ON SEXUALITY (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie))
See Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality : 1905d : Sigmund Freud, at www.LacanianWorks.org /3 Sigmund Freud (19050101 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
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