Museum pieces today: Freud and the Extended Etiological Equation

Authors

  • Pablo Cabrera Pérez Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This paper presents a review of Freud's key ideas to understand subjective discomfort in our time. It incorporates discoveries made by the author after 1920, linking Freud's classical theory of symptom formation process -related to the unconscious-, to heritage and transmission, the original and the traumatic, presenting what we have called an expanded etiological equation. It is argued that these considerations allow a further and more complex discussion about the new soul's diseases, or in other words, today's subjective discomforts.

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, trauma, transmission, subjectivity