Overvejelser over brugen af begrebet »det ubevidste« i psykoanalysen

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the unconscious. It shows that even in psychoanalysis, which has the unconscious as its »object«, is »the unconscious« an inaccessible and evasive »something«. After that it goes into the logical difficulties in the attempt of Freudian theory to determine the consciousness of the subject on the basis of a psychological unconscious, which is itself un-determined. The un-conscious must necessarily be an unknown. Through a discussion with Danish scholars the article concludes that we can neither have objective knowledge nor speak in a logically meaningful manner about »the unconscious« as such. It pleads fora humanistic, hermeneutic reformulation of the theoretical language of psychoanalysis, where substantivating conceptualizations such as The unconscious become superfluous.