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Unconscious (Aphorism 5)

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Is There a Metaphor in Psychoanalysis?

Emma: Do we want to pay any credence to this whole aphorism being a metaphor, maybe? I think it's a way of for him to introduce metaphor into psychoanalysis. He can mean that, ike, the unconscious is language, and then it's like that. So then it's conscious then, right? Like, it's just like, i can read t in a book,. There's no so that thet has to be, has to be metaphor. And i think that it invites misunderstanding and ambiguity. But i don't know, it's maybe part and parcel what we're talking about.

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