仮死埋葬空想の精神分析理論

Abstract

This paper explores the uncanny fantasy of being buried alive, which S. Freud continues to refer to throughout his psychoanalytic theory and history. Before the birth of psychoanalysis, in the case of Emmy von N. in "Studies on Hysteria, " Freud considers this fantasy from the viewpoint of trauma, which implies not sexuality, but death. Next, between the end of nineteenth century and 1909, Freud connects the symbol of the mother's womb to the fantasy of being buried alive concerning the mother complex. While Freud emphasizes the oedipal complex in 1910s, this fantasy is replaced by the dream figure of the dead father. In Freud's article "The Uncanny, " there is conflict between Jentsch's concept as "intellectual uncertainty" and Freud's concept as castration anxiety. It is considered that this conflict is the same as that between the fantasy of being buried alive based on the mother complex and castration anxiety based on the oedipal complex. Then, after 1923, Freud regards the fantasy of being buried alive as a regressive phenomenon, which occurs in incest taboo. Finally, in the context of the oedipal complex, Freud interprets this fantasy wholly from the viewpoint of identification with the dead father.