Freud Variations. File, Psychoanalysis, Fiction and Travel

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to present some Freud variations. In metaphorical words. In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition: reiteration with changes. Or in other words: a form in which successive statements of the fundamental musical idea —or theme— is altered or presented in altered settings. That is what I try to do in this essay. Freud like theme and variation, like reiteration with changes. The changes involve file, psychoanalysis, fiction and travel. And Freud like protagonist of these variations.

Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific theory of human condition; refers a type of treatment in which the analytic patient verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient’s symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems. Psychoanalysis applied in literature and sociology, anthropology and ethnology, religion and mythology, incited the interest of a public that had no inclination towards the clinical realm. Also in cultural history incited the public interest.