Étiquette : anthropogenesis

  • IV – The unbreakable objects and the empty hands

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – The place the hands can’t seek – IV – The unbreakable objects   ‘Lorsqu’il découvre les travaux des éthologistes, [John] Bowlby est à la recherche d’une théorie capable d’expliquer les observations cliniques qu’il a rassemblées en quinze ans de travail à la Tavistock Clinic de Londres. […] le…

  • I – The Charter

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – The place the hands can’t seek – I – The Charter We would like to summon here all that in the structure of thinking is sometimes leading us to choose between alternatives. We can either go with the flow of one society’s time, regardless of where it is…

  • The tiniest world : ‘Give me a restraint’

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – The tiniest world – I – Give me a restraint A part of our work has focused on aggression. More precisely on its relation to violence as a moral feature. We also discussed the relation to object and the transitional area from psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s work. We…

  • Note on a narrative of anthropogenesis : synthesis to the three paradoxes theory

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – Synthesis to the three paradoxes theory There are two hearts to the theory of the three paradoxes : one that is sensorimotor, the other one symbolic. The sensorimotor heart of the theory is that as the hands are the primary vector of intention toward outside objects, one’s hand(s) cannot…

  • On violence and aggression

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – On violence and aggression While reading Jacques Lacan’s conference on The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, I happened to think back of this article I wanted to write – to explain a bit more our use of the concept of violence, its connection to the morals and…