| Title: | Choice of Neurosis : Charcot and Freud |
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| Authors: | ID Troha, Tadej (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/15151
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRC SAZU - The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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| Abstract: | The article approaches Freud’s concept of the choice of neurosis (Neurosenwahl) through Jacques Nassif’s 1968 essay “Freud and Science.” In this text, Nassif focuses on the ways in which Jean-Martin Charcot influenced the development of Freud’s thought, highlighting in particular Charcot’s decisive gesture of isolating neurosis as a purely psychological affection. The article accordingly proceeds from the hypothesis that the repetition of the break—which Nassif identifies as the central methodological gesture of psychoanalysis— takes place here in the form of a repetition and radicalization of Charcot’s “choice of neurosis.” In other words, the problem of the choice of neurosis could be posed only on the basis of Charcot’s prior gesture, and if Freud wished to remain faithful to this gesture, he had to articulate the choice of neurosis as a speculative, metapsychological concept. The article shows that the choice of neurosis functions as a nodal point between empiricism, psychoanalytic technique, and metapsychological speculation, and, on another level, between ontogenetic and phylogenetic approaches: a constellation that becomes particularly clear in the analysis of the initially lost and later rediscovered twelfth and final metapsychological essay, “Overview of the Transference Neuroses.” |
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| Keywords: | Sigmund Freud, Jacques Nassif, metapsychology, choice of neurosis, disposition |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 13.03.2026 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Numbering: | letn. 46, št. 3 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-28423  |
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| ISSN on article: | 0353-4510 |
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| DOI: | 10.3986/fv.46.3.05 |
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| Copyright: | Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 18.03.2026 |
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| Views: | 24 |
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