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| Anno XV , n° 1, Giugno 1997 ( Contributi ) | pag. 55-74 |
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DIFFERENCE, REPETITION, AND THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOND IN ADA NEGRI |
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| CRISTINA MAZZONI | |
| University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont |
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For Ida, Stefania, and Gemma. Fort ... da, fort ... da a child's little words, hardly more than a babble, is what we hear at the beginning of Freud's theoretical development of the compulsion to repeat an unpleasant experience. This phenomenon permanently put into question Freud's earlier assumption that "the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle" (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1). Fort is the German word this toddler pronounced (or almost pronounced: his "loud, long-drawn-out 'o-o-o'" is what Freud and the boy's mother interpreted as "fort" (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 8-9) while throwing a toy out of sight (fort = gone), thus reenacting his mother's departure from him. [...] |
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