This essay explores the "unconscious" meaning of the
metaphors in which psychoanalytic theory is stated. In other
words, the psychoanalytic method of interpretation is turned
back on the theory itself. Considered are Freud's theories of
sexuality, pleasure-unpleasure, masculinity-femininity and the
metapsychology. The roots of these theories are located in Freud's
intellectual "childhood" in a nineteenth"",century system of values
and traced from that source through major portions of his later
work
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