On the temporality of Freud’s metapsychology: some thoughts about transmission

Abstract

This article is based on the hypothesis that the concept of drive establishes fundamental relations with transmission. Studying this relation may contribute to the advancement of psychoanalysis as it relies on a historicizing dimension of the subject’s advent. Thus, we associate fundamental psychoanalytical concepts, such as myth, fiction and trauma in their relation to the particular conditions of emergence that constitutes metapsychology, aiming to contribute to the studies that face the dilemmas of debates on history and memory, and eventually question the concept of representation. Therefore, this article discusses transmission and seeks to understand which consequences of vital concepts of metapsychology, e.g. the unconscious and the drive, may contribute to the debate on history and time.

Key words:
Psychoanalysis; transmission; metapsychology; time