Schelling's

As such the annular drive conditions all specific drives, and outlines a space for history very different from the "electromagnetic orgasm" that is Martin Wallen's topological figure for the relation between expansive and contractive forces in Schelling's "cosmic history"

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Rather in Schelling's deconstruction of the Hegelian logic that underwrites an Idealist history, the third, the synthesis he had continued to project in 1813 (W2 144), is itself

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

But it is also opened up by Schelling's actual account of the crisis.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

But the crisis buried in Schelling's own expressing of this inner division as only a problem of logic in 1813 explodes in 1815 in the passage on magnetic sleep, where the unity that holds the "inner forces" together in the waking state and

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Nor is this recursiveness confined to the text; it extends to an entire topology that marks the place of the third version in the body of Schelling's work.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

This last is Schelling's term for the involution by which nature, as in the case of planets rotating on their own axis, "evolves itself out of its own powers," yet not by any "peaceful eisemplasy [Ineinsbildung] of forces" (103, 91-92; 10: 128), such as was envisaged in the earlier

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Schelling's claim that in the final and highest instance there is no other Being than Will.

The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008

Focusing on the differences between the three versions of Schelling's Ages of the World, this paper takes up the invention of psychoanalysis in the third (1815) version.

Article Abstracts 2008

To paraphrase Rajan in this volume, with reference to Schelling's 1815

Introduction 2008

We already have a sense of the oppressiveness of "higher" principles such as totality in Karl Schelling's note to the 1813 version, which unexpectedly goes on to take up the concept of disease.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008