SE XIII p163-190.
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Headings

PART II THE CLAIMS OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS TO THE INTEREST OF THE NON-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
– (A) THE PHILOLOGICAL INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
(B) THE PHILOSOPHICAL INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
(C) THE BIOLOGICAL INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
(D) THE INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL POINT OF VIEW
(E) THE INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
(F) THE INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE SCIENCE OF AESTHETICS
(G) THE SOCIOLOGICAL INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
(H) THE EDUCATIONAL INTEREST OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS

Citations

-Quote from Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII 25th November 1959 (Dreams of ‘strawberries’ & ‘dead father’) : 27th October 2012 : Julia Evans See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or Index of Other Authors’ texts)

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Seminar VII : 25th November : p24 of Dennis Porter’s translation : para 6 : See below for quotatation.

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The Child is father of the Man : William Wordsworth: 1802

“MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD”

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

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Sigmund Freud: [p2214] : from The Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest :1913 :

Part II The Claims of Psychoanalysis to the Interest of the Non-Psychological Sciences :

Section (D) The Interest of Psychoanalysis from a Developmental Point of View:

Psycho-analysis has been obliged to derive the mental life of adults from that of children, and has had to take seriously the old saying that the child is father to the man. It has traced the continuity between the infantile and adult mind, and has also noted the transformations and re-arrangements that occur in the process. In most of us there is a gap in our memories covering the first years of our childhood, of which only a few fragmentary recollections survive. Psycho-analysis may be said to have filled in this gap and to have abolished man’s infantile amnesia.

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-25th November 1959 of Seminar VII Ethics (1959-1960) : from 18th November 1959 : Jacques Lacan, See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19591118 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)

P24 of Dennis Porter’s translation, If the reward or the novelty of the psychoanalytic experience were limited to that, it wouldn’t go much further than the dated notion that was born long before psychoanalysis, namely, that the child is father of the man. The phrase comes from Wordsworth, the English romantic poet, and is quoted respectfully by Freud. (Quoted, see above, by Sigmund Freud in The Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest :1913)

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