Étiquette : psychoanalysis

  • VI – Physics, hermeneutics, language and the conditions of interpretation

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – The place the hands can’t seek – VI – Physics, hermeneutics, language and the conditions of interpretation ‘The Spirit produces itself, it makes itself what it is. […] This process, mediation of itself with itself and by itself (and not by another) implies that the Spirit differenciates…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • II – Modern servitude

    Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville – The tiniest world – II – Modern servitude I came to think of modern servitude when working at the shop as a salesperson. Yesterday, an italian young couple entered, they couldn’t speak french and I managed first to get along with them in english and spanish, though they…

  • 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…