Lecture date: 2005-01-26
Drawing a Line – Freud and the Drawn Unconscious – the third in an eight-part lecture series which investigates how the line is understood in order to rethink its history. Any concern with materialism has to engage with the presence of dynamic factors within a materialist account. The dynamic like potentiality is an immaterial aspect of the material. While Freud could draw – as indeed he did – the topographical distinction between the unconscious and the conscious as systems, he could not draw a series of lines that captured the economic model of the unconscious/conscious divide. The economic model means coming to terms with the difficulty of representing force. In an attempt to engage with this question Andrew Benjamin examines some of Freud’s drawings.
Andrew Benjamin is currently Professor of Critical Theory in Design and Architecture at the University of Sydney.
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