The Witch Meta-Psychology
In Freud’s letter to Einstein (Why War? 1933) he admits that his theory of the drives is a “mythology.” Likewise he names—in Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937)—a “Witch Meta-psychology,” saying that in the face of the mysteries of unconscious processes, “we must call upon our witch.” While perhaps not Freud’s intention, this name cannot help but draw a clear line between psychoanalytic theory (mythological and witchy), and an enlightenment (read capitalist) science, parading as “facts” that seek to usurp and expropriate local feminine knowledges—the truth of the patient. Any meta-psychology worth the name “witch” is always provisional and advances on the side of the human.
