Psychoanalytic anthropology and the problem of affects. A study of Freud's readings of Oedipus the King and their significance in the history of ideas

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770026
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Sato Tomoko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 (70613876)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 精神分析（応用精神分析） / 人間学 / フロイト / 『オイディプス王』 / 自由連想 / 情動（集団的次元における） / 幻想（集団的次元における） / 現代フランス思想

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We clarify that the principal methodological characteristics of Freud’s investigation of man as a social and cultural being lie in the technique, or rather, the attitude of free association practiced by the investigator and problem formulation about affects and fantasies in their collective dimension. We also point out that Freud’s readings of Oedipus the King, the prime example selected for this study, show a tendency toward schematization as well as an interest in tragic affects (pleasure marked by pain), and the former can be disrupted by the latter. Our study shows that the heterogeneous directions of the investigation, and the tensions between them, appear in the transformations of the psychoanalytic discourse structure (Ferenczi, Laplanche), the redevelopment of the theory on mother-child relations (Abraham & Torok), the raising of new questions in the humanities field (Anzieu), or the reexamination of philosophical concepts (Derrida).

Free Research Field

思想史