The witch metapsychology

The witch metapsychology! Without metapsychological speculation and the - orizing-I had almost said “phantasying�?-we shall not get another step forward. -Freud, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable�? TO RESIST WANTING TO READ IN A TEXT what has already governed its theoret-ical interest requires more than a detour. The reasoning that follows is worth at least as much for the reading of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, a decisive text inasmuch as it seems to inaugurate a turning point in Freudian thought, as for what is written here, notwithstanding a reliance on Freud’s text to the point of being only a commentary on it. This will to adequation, however, is misleading. An inevitable deception, it will serve to produce an effect of unlikeness in the hand-to-hand struggle with the text from a resistance that, though based on the phantasmatic " structure,�? puts in play not the phantasm as itself-there could never be one-but one of its figures: the representation of death is always other.