The Tower of Babel
Perron, Roger
The Tower of Babel - 2007.
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'? The tower of Babel was originally a square construction in Babylon that served to mediate possible and desirable contact with the divine element and thereby re evoke the question of origins. The Bible, on the other hand, portrayed it as a symbol of reprehensible human pride and power. Classical iconography transformed this tower into a rising spiral that symbolised misunderstanding and was therefore condemned to remain unfinished. The tower of Babel is thus a perfect metaphor for the of analytical process?: it more particularly illustrates the dangers faced by the analyst, that is to say, a)?the illusion of power and the vice of self importance (the Greek hybris), and b)?the feeling of unworthiness and the risk of deception. The wavering between doubt and certitude that characterises the whole of Freud's work is indeed characteristic of every?case of analytic treatment, and perhaps more specifically in the realm of the transference and counter-transference. The resulting paradox is that is that both inconclusiveness and misunderstanding are considered to be perfectly acceptable in the context of treatment.
The Tower of Babel - 2007.
11
'? The tower of Babel was originally a square construction in Babylon that served to mediate possible and desirable contact with the divine element and thereby re evoke the question of origins. The Bible, on the other hand, portrayed it as a symbol of reprehensible human pride and power. Classical iconography transformed this tower into a rising spiral that symbolised misunderstanding and was therefore condemned to remain unfinished. The tower of Babel is thus a perfect metaphor for the of analytical process?: it more particularly illustrates the dangers faced by the analyst, that is to say, a)?the illusion of power and the vice of self importance (the Greek hybris), and b)?the feeling of unworthiness and the risk of deception. The wavering between doubt and certitude that characterises the whole of Freud's work is indeed characteristic of every?case of analytic treatment, and perhaps more specifically in the realm of the transference and counter-transference. The resulting paradox is that is that both inconclusiveness and misunderstanding are considered to be perfectly acceptable in the context of treatment.
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