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https://doi.org/10.51897/interalia/SVXU3304
Under Erasure: A Queer-Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of a Dream
Chris Schramm
Abstract
This article offers a queer-feminist psychoanalytic reading of a dream based on transcription, translation, and transliteration, three interrelated operations referring to the real, the imaginary and the symbolic, as proposed by French psychoanalyst Jean Allouch (n.d.). The storyline of the dream drives from the long-lasting violence against LGBTIQA+ people, and brings into practice new, creative forms of critical knowledge production in academia. One question remains concerning the rather latent desire and how to continue opening the way for it through free association as the texture of writing as such. The ability to write beyond the storyline in a non-directional way, and to listen with all our senses, as discussed in reference to Trinh (2011), are key to deciphering the unconscious and bringing it into play in academic writing and queering psychoanalysis.
Keywords: under erasure, queer-feminist psychoanalysis, dream, transcription-translation-transliteration, the unconscious in academic writing
