Across Limits

  • Rob White
Part of the Language, Discourse, Society book series (LDS)

Abstract

On 12 August 1904, Rilke wrote to Franz Kappus:

If there is anything morbid in your processes, just remember that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself of foreign matter [ein Organismus sich von Fremdem befreit]; so one must help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and break out with it, for that is its progress.1

Keywords

Mental Life Railway Carriage Figurative Language Political Geography Protective Shield 
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Notes

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    Jacqueline Rose, Why War? Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p. 19.Google Scholar
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    Harold Bloom, ‘Freud: Frontier Concepts, Jewishness, and Interpretation’, in Cathy Caruth (ed.), Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).Google Scholar
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    Paul-Laurent Assoun, Introduction à l’épistémologie freudienne (Paris: Payot, 1981), p. 190.Google Scholar
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    Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 347–8.Google Scholar
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    Harold Bloom, ‘Freud’s Concepts of Defense and the Poetic Will’, in Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 120.Google Scholar

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