Felicitations for publishing this in the general public.

But just a note … though Freud’s 1895 publication date of his Entwurf began as you say with a postulate on the nervous system as a psychic representation of material particles, by the time he gets to Letter 52 (1896) the reflex circuit has gone through a complete change. It is no longer a psychic representation of material particles, but now includes a reference to traits (sign perceptions/Wahrnehmungzeichen) and word-presentations in the preconscious (Vorbsbewusstein). Unlike the early psychiatric representational models, it is this non-representational and non-physical model of the neuron circuit that Freud finally adopts for psychoanalysis by the time of the Interpretation of Dreams (1899). No doubt, one can always seek to retrospectively exploit his early Entwurf model, but strictly speaking this is not psychoanalytic but psychiatric; indeed, psychoanalysis was not a term coined by Freud until the Irma dream (1899). Rather, any contemporary study of Freud’s psychoanalytic neuron circuit that takes his non-representational, non-psychiatric, and non-physical model seriously requires a direct study not of the physics of material particles, whether mitochondria or otherwise, but the materiality of the letter and trait.

This short note is more an exercise in scholarship than anything else … or if it helps landmark any research that would claim to base itself on Freudian analysis, then so much the better.

Cheers,

S

Simplicus ………………………………………………Tate Robert

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