"Real Life" - On Freud, Lacan, and Philip K. Dick

Sie auch: Dominik Finkelde, Das Objekt, das zu viel wusste. Eine Einführung in die Philosophie nach Lacan (Berlin/Wien: Turia & Kant 2022)
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The talk is based on the article: Dominik Finkelde, “The Dream that Knew Too Much. On Freud, Lacan, and Philip K. Dick”, in: Parallax. The Dependence of Reality on Its Subjective Constitution, edited by D. Finkelde, C. Menke, and S. Zizek (London: Bloomsbury 2021, forthcoming).
It focuses on a mutual permeation of, on the one hand, non-wakefulness in everyday life through, on the other hand, experiences of awakening through dreaming. I show how reality, as that which is, results in a parallactic contortion of slumbering states of not-wakefulness on the level of our everyday consciousness. However, theses mental states rest, and this is decisive, on experiences of awakening through dreaming. The chiastic relationship of non-wakefulness during being awake and of awakening through dreaming is explained with reference to the TV-Episode "Real Life" of the Amazon TV-Series "Electric Dreams". References to Lacan, Freud, Aristotle, and the Taoist Philosopher Chuang Tzu show how for Philip K. Dick the mind in her dream-work can encounter truth values which, due to repression mechanisms in the waking state, maintain non-wakefulness in our everyday life.

[@unusualpond]

Very enjoyable thank you

[@manuelajackel3002]

Mit deutschen Untertitel wäre auch gut

[@patoloco1000]

It's funny how psychoanalysis enthusiasts always talk about science fiction and characters for children- Jung and Luke Skywalker, Jung and Batman, Freud and Superman, a psychoanalysis of Bruce Wayne. It should be cristal clear by now that psychoanalysis is a method that should be reserved for science fiction and fictional characters and not for the real world. I mean, what a stupid cult!

[@annip5573]

I am very much interested in your reasoning why it is cristal clear. I need some education in this. Thanks in advance.

[@nikoplangger]

Yet these characters are icons for so many and represent a notion crystal clear. Offcourse real people are way more complex and it should never be forget but in psychoanalytic analysis you find these notions, I found. Just watch some psychaiatrists who are dealing with real people? Doesn't has psychoanalytic theory a very big explanatory power for so many phenomenons? Where do you think are the limits and short commings of psychoanalyse?

[@darrenelkins5923]

Your comment betrays your own immaturity Such studies are tge wholistic journey of human consciousness. Much awakening is done in formative teenage years A time when we truly believe we can be whatever we wish to be, but still seem bound by some universal thought. Or what humans know as our reality. The human condition The characters used are as they are for that reason. Just as many believe they can do extraordinary things when they dream, the characters used reflect dreams against reality. Or what we perceive as which. Batman and superman are not children but they are written as character analysis of this condition. Skywalker reflects the jungian hero’s journey or path to individuation. It’s why these characters endure. They reflect this human path of consciousness. An important path that humans arguably followed for years and those that do not appear to suffer arrested development. A problem currently infecting society more than ever.