La angustia laberíntica

Abstract

According to Freud, the labyninth simbolises birth anxiety. Freud himself tells us about a labyrinthic expenience: wanting to escape from a quarter of prostitutes he gets lost in a maze of by-streets without finding his way out and he repeatedly returns to the same place until an uncanny feeling gets hold of him and paralyzes him. The labyrinthic anxiety is the confusion in front of the nightmare within the uncanny space. The original failure of the schizoid position oniginates, as a consequence of the genetic continuity of: psicosis, perversion, neurosis, the condensation of three anxieties: confusion, nightmare and tophobia. The failure of schizoid dissociation originates the confusional anxiety with the breadkown of the dialectic between the opposites: persecution and idealization. The uncanny, when the protection with the idealized object is lost, is also the paralayzing panic where is no more persecutory object to flee from. With the breaking down of the dialetic unity of the oral triad (eating, being eaten and sleeping) Sartrian “nausée” appears in the midst of the “visqueux” causing insomnia through restless anxiety in the labyrinthic swamp.
The labyrinth is the dwelling of the Minotaur, the monster with the body of a human being and the head of a bull. The internal persecutory object which is the envy of the maternal phallus, turns the body scheme into a labyrinth. When the combined parental figure (confusion of the object) impairs the integration of the body scheme, the “amazing” feelings originate the labyrinthic rites of sexual perversion.
Through original repression, the transition from the primary process to the secondary process, appears the conscious situation of being-in-the-world. The existential space constitutes itself as point of view, horizon, path.
As repression fails, the dream space invades the being-in the-world, causing the labyrinthic anxiety strictly speaking. The loss of the path of intersubjectivity causes confusional anxiety of absolute helpesseness in the Labyrinth. The blurring out of the body causes the agoraphobic vertigo in front of the uncanny screen. The extinction of time causes the claustrophobic panic of sinking in the eternal cavern.