Kierkegaard, Freud, Lacan, Nasio y la Repetición

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

Kierkegaard and Freud: aspekts of the self - a Kirkegaardian approach

The paper will examine and compare features of the self within selected writings of Kierkegaard and Freud. Granted their objectives cover different perspectives, i.e. man’s spiritual qualities vis-à-vis his natural qualities; qualities that indeed call attention to their dissimilarities, I shall nevertheless make an effort to point out similarities. I believe that what would seem as “irreconcil...

The Place of Acting out in Psychoanalysis: from Freud to Lacan

Separation , Death , the Thing , Freud , Lacan , and the Missed Encounter 1

If it still remains possible to constitute cerebrality as a specific regime of events, if it remains possible to show that trauma—as unexpected accident or unforeseen catastrophe—possesses a determining and not merely a triggering power within the psyche, this possibility could only be elaborated at the heart of Freud’s thinking of danger, destruction, and the annihilation of the psyche. It wou...

The Mark, the Thing, and the Object: On What Commands Repetition in Freud and Lacan

In Logique du Fantasme, Lacan argues that the compulsion to repeat does not obey the same discharge logic as homeostatic processes. Repetition installs a realm that is categorically different from the one related to homeostatic pleasure seeking, a properly subjective one, one in which the mark "stands for," "takes the place of," what we have ventured to call "an event," and what only in the mov...