Abstract:
We propose, in this paper, an interpretation of this passage in Freud’s Abriss der Psychoanalyse: “The decisive rules of logic don’t apply in the unconscious, we could call it the Empire of the illogical”. To do this, we are going to follow these steps: 1) Define the concept of logic through Aristotle’s Organon. 2) Identify the decisive rules of logic and their contents. 3) Examine in what sense these rules don’t apply in the unconscious. 4) Call into question Freud’s thesis that unconscious would be the Empire of the illogical. The idea that this Freudian thesis is problematic comes from a thesis which Lacan presents in the seminar XIV on the logic of phantasy, namely that the unconscious “is installed in the field of logic and that it articulates propositions”. This thesis will allow us to conclude that the unconscious is not completely the Empire of the illogical.
Keywords:
unconscious; logic; Freud; Lacan