This being said on the nature of the unconscious, what does it entail as to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis ? Let us be clear, it offers no easier way to tackle its issues. But it allows us to set the limits of a grounding topology, the difference between what you can prove and lean… Lire la suite II – Consequences on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis
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II – From the most probable case to psychoanalysis
Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville - Hermeneulogy - II - From the most probable case to psychoanalysis We exposed in an article called The most probable case what we considered being the most probable scenario for the constitution of the symbolical capacities in the evolution of the human species. As we are talking… Lire la suite II – From the most probable case to psychoanalysis
Three paradoxes theory : Introduction
Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville - Three paradoxes theory - Introduction There is a beautiful idea developed by psychiatrist Ian McGilchrist in his book The Master and his Emissary that in the brain, the difference between left and right hemisphere would exist, but not in the current popular version of an opposition… Lire la suite Three paradoxes theory : Introduction
III – Self-destructiveness and the urban world
Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville - The place the hands can't seek - III - Self-destructiveness and the urban world To think demands distance. It demands room, space, and the possibility to distend time. Saint Augustine was quite aiming at it when he wondered about this distentio animi in his Confessions. Time… Lire la suite III – Self-destructiveness and the urban world
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… Lire la suite The tiniest world : ‘Give me a restraint’