S. Freud & J. Lacan “Estructuras clínicas”

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

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...

1 Freud ’ s Baby – Little

Surely there must be a possibility of observing in children at first hand and in all the freshness of life the sexual impulses and wishes which we dig out so laboriously in adults from among their own debris – especially as it is our own belief that they are the common property of all men, a part of the human constitution, and merely exaggerated or distorted in the case of neurotics. (SE x: 6; ...

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...