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AUTHORITY AND TRANSFERENCE: NOTES ON THE WHITE CASTLE, BY O. PAMUK

ABSTRACT

This is a bibliographical research, in essay format, that comments on the book of O. Pamuk O castelo branco. From it, it was sought to clarify the historical, cultural and epistemic conditions of the accomplishment of the analytic discourse, questioning the use of authority in analytical technique in comparison with other modalities of social ties. The categories of analysis adopted are Koyré's contributions to the construction of the modern scientific method, Lacan's elaborations on the subject of science, his discourse’s theory and the concepts of transference, uncanny and narcissism of small differences. It is emphasized that the Pamuk text has as its center the problematization of the feeling of the uncanny between two look-alikes in a relation strongly marked by the cultural distance, the rivalry and the admiration. It is then discussed the participation of the subject of the unconscious in the act of knowing and the influence of narcissism on the production of obstacles in the field of knowledge. It is emphasized that, by failing to intervene throughits own signifiers and Ideal of Self, the psychoanalyst evidences the relation of the subject with its master-signifiers and its object cause of desire. Psychoanalysis thus demonstrates that the social injunction to place oneself in the place of the other is crossed by the contradictions of the narcissism of small differences. In the end, it is questioned through the feeling of the uncanny as a motive of segregation and violence the manifestations of the other in me that I reject.

Keywords:
Ohram Pamuk; science; discourse of the analyst

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