Abstract
From the analysis of two texts by Sigmund Freud, “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (‘Dora’)” and Studies on hysteria, this paper aims to present two topics: first, how the inscription of the word cat in Freud’s aforementioned texts reveals itself as a conceptual opening in the development of the psychoanalyst’s work, becoming an important convergence point to some of his later works. Secondly, how Freud’s inscription of the word cat is manifested in two other texts: Jean-Paul Sartre’s What is Literature? and Maurice Blanchot’s “Literature and the Right to Death”.
Keywords:
Sigmund Freud; Maurice Blanchot; Jean-Paul Sartre; cat; fragment.