Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography

Structure was a key signifier, and a logical quilting point, informing Jacques Lacan’s return to Freud, which amounted to his reinvention of the unconscious as structured like a language. Lacan read, and reinvigorated, Sigmund Freud’s classic texts primarily through the lenses of Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural linguistics and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural anthropology—not mentioning Hegelianism (via Kojève), surrealism, and mathematics as other equally important lenses. The structure of subjectivity was the central question for both Freud and Lacan. While the former understood psychic structure in terms of topography, the latter explicated it through topology. What then of the structure of Ian Parker’s recently published book?

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38th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Intimacy and Social Suffering in a Globalized World

Group Analysis ◽

10.1177/0533316414547682 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 365-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Elisabeth Rohr

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Group Analysis ◽

Social Suffering ◽

Central Question ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Annual Lecture ◽

The Social ◽

Social Unconscious ◽

Globalized World

How is intimacy possible in a globalized world—and how does the loss of intimacy effect societies as well as individuals? This is the central question of the following article. It is argued that sociology alone cannot find any convincing answers, because we need to understand the unconscious dynamics of global developments that undermine the human capacity to bond and to experience intimacy. Group analysis offers quite a unique position ‘on the edge’, that allows us to observe and to connect, to analyse and to understand not only patients, but also people and situations outside of the clinical world. In this sense it is social group analysis that turns out to be a valid research method and an approach that is capable of deciphering the ‘social unconscious’. An extensive case study out of a research project about transnational children in Ecuador (South America) and the story of Daqui are offered to show what is unconsciously at stake in a modern and globalized world, how much intimacy has degenerated already and how this can be understood in terms of group analysis.

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Formal Models in Narrative Analysis

Circles Disturbed ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691149042.003.0013 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

David Herman

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Models ◽

Narrative Analysis ◽

Permutation Groups ◽

Formal Models ◽

Structural Linguistics ◽

Modeling Practices ◽

And Mathematics ◽

Models And Modeling

This chapter considers formal models of narrative and the nature of the theory of narrative. After discussing the diachronic and synchronic approaches to investigating the role of formal models in narrative analysis, the chapter looks at those ideas about models and modeling as a kind of bridge between humanistic and technoscientific discourse. It then evaluates descriptive and functional classifications of models, along with a range of perspectives on mathematical models and modeling. It also presents a case study in metanarratology, with a particular focus on modeling practices that have been brought to bear on focalization. It also analyzes some instances of the confluence of the formal study of narrative and mathematics, including the use of permutation groups, as well as the synergy between mathematically based theories of structural linguistics and early work on story grammars.

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Why is There Lalangue Rather than Nothing? Love of Lugha and Lalangue

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409841.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 70-97

Author(s):

Nadia Bou Ali

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Science And Literature ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Simple Transformation ◽

Structural Linguistics ◽

Late Nineteenth

The chapter argues that the work on lugha in the late nineteenth-century was driven by the need to hold laghuw at bay. Lugha in its etymology carries the meaning of laghuw: incoherent speech, babble and error.6 In Bustānī’s nineteenth-century Arabic dictionary, it also has the meaning of annulment, erasure and deletion. To be in a state of laghuw is ‘to drink endlessly without being able to quench thirst’.7 In other words, lugha oscillates between pleasure and beyond pleasure, an identifiable object of desire that it constantly addresses and makes present through speech. This would mean that lalangue would represent an adequate translation of lugha – not language as a medium for communication, but the language of the unconscious, in which there is no simple transformation of words into images (or signifier into signified). The chapter analyzes Shidyaq’s linguisteriks through a Lacanian understanding of signification which departs from both socio-linguistics and structural linguistics. Lacan’s account of language as a divisive force implies that there is something that demands to be realised in speech, which appears as intentional, of course, but has a strange temporality and does not have the form of propositional statements. The chapter argues that Bustani’s encyclopedic work and Shidyaq’s literary puns are connected by a prolepsis that characterizes modernity and collapses the distance between science and literature.

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Timing and Timelessness in Group Analysis: The Unconscious Setting of the Group

Group Analysis ◽

10.1177/0533316403036001204 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 87-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephen Arcari

Keyword(s):

Group Analysis ◽

Symbolic Representation ◽

Transitional Space ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Analytic Group ◽

Psychic Structure ◽

Seating Arrangement ◽

Group Matrix ◽

Group I

Sitting patients in a circle and facilitating free-floating discussion has particular effects. Viewed with Matte-Blanco's reformulation of unconscious forces, the circle - a ubiquitous seating arrangement and symbol in group analysis - can be said to enhance the inherent symbolic representation of infinity in the psychic structure of a group. I would characterize this effect as the `unconscious setting of the group'. Taking account of the unconscious setting of the group has implications for our understanding of the technique of group analysis; in particular Foulkes's idea of the horizontal transference within a group analytic group and its relationship to the use and timing of the interpretative activity of the conductor is illustrated. The transitional space within the group matrix encourages symmetrical thinking and can be experienced simultaneously as frightening, confusing and helpful.

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Édipo e Castração: Aspectos atinentes a constituição do sujeito / Oedipus and Castration: Aspects related to the constitution of the subject

ID on line REVISTA DE PSICOLOGIA ◽

10.14295/idonline.v15i57.3239 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (57) ◽

pp. 532-561

Author(s):

Joelson Rodrigues Miguel ◽

Heuthelma Ribeiro Braga

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

End Of Life ◽

Oedipus Complex ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Psychic Structure ◽

Oedipal Conflict ◽

Exploratory Approach ◽

Constitutive Process ◽

The Subject ◽

Castration Anxiety

Resumo: O Complexo de Édipo é um processo constitutivo de todo sujeito, por meio do qual será desenvolvida sua estruturação psíquica, já que o conflito edipiano fica registrado no inconsciente de toda criança e persiste até o fim da vida. Vale lembrar que ao longo de seu desenvolvimento, o ego da criança vai sendo preparado para a castração por meio das diversas perdas que vai sofrendo, como o ventre da mãe, o seio materno e suas próprias fezes, surge então à ansiedade de castração que é justamente o medo de ser separado de um objeto valioso. O ensaio que se inscreve através de uma revisão bibliográfica visa discorrer sobre o Complexo de Édipo e a castração como aspectos atinentes a constituição do sujeito. A pesquisa trata-se de um estudo de natureza bibliográfica, com uma abordagem qualitativa e de cunho exploratório. Compreendemos através da pesquisa que o Complexo de Édipo assim como a castração tem sido cada vez mais pesquisado, no entanto, o que se percebe é que muitos estudos têm abordado esta temática sobre várias perspectivas, mas o que chama atenção é que ainda notam-se muitas divergências quanto ao assunto. Destarte, para nós da psicanálise é muito importante compreender esses conceitos fundamentais que foram nos colocado não só de compreensão por meio da psicanálise e através da ideia de Freud mais também por teóricos como Lacan que fez um retorno ao trabalho de Freud.Palavras-chave: Psicanálise; Complexo de Édipo. Castração; Criança. Abstract: The Oedipus Complex is a constitutive process of every subject, through which its psychic structure will be developed since the oedipal conflict is registered in the unconscious of every child and persists until the end of life. It is worth remembering that throughout its development, the child's ego is being prepared for castration through the various losses it suffers, such as the mother's womb, the mother's breast, and her own feces, then the castration anxiety that is just the fear of being separated from a valuable object. The essay that is inscribed through a literature review aims to discuss the Oedipus Complex and castration as aspects related to the constitution of the subject. The research is a bibliographical study, with a qualitative and exploratory approach. We understand through the research that the Oedipus Complex as well as castration has been increasingly researched, however, what is perceived is that many studies have addressed this issue from various perspectives, but what draws attention is that it is still noticed. many disagreements on the subject. Thus, for us in psychoanalysis it is very important to understand these fundamental concepts that were brought to us not only through psychoanalysis and through Freud's idea, but also by theorists such as Lacan who made a return to Freud's work. Keywords: Psychoanalysis. Oedipus complex. Castration. Kid.

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Discursos, Performatividade e Questões de Gênero na Formação de Sujeitos Envolvidos com a Aprendizagem Matemática

Revista DisSoL - Discurso, Sociedade e Linguagem ◽

10.35501/dissol.v0i2.32 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Lucas Alves Lima Barbosa

Keyword(s):

Mathematics Teaching ◽

Central Question ◽

Social Sphere ◽

The Social ◽

Language And Mathematics ◽

Teaching Of Mathematics ◽

And Mathematics ◽

The Moment

O questionamento central das discussões aqui realizadas é: “Existem relações entre as concepções de gênero, a linguística e o ensino da matemática?”. De fato, não é incomum depararmo-nos com afirmações do tipo "meninos têm mais facilidade para aprender matemática do que meninas" ou "a mulher é muito emotiva e pouco racional", dentre outras, que podem trazer implicações para o ensino da matemática a partir do momento em que encaramos tais enunciações sob a luz alguns conceitos trabalhados na área da linguística. Partindo-se de certos pressupostos relacionados com a noção de que somos seres onde discursos se estanciam e ganham vida, os enunciados citados anteriormente, uma vez transpostos para a sala de aula, podem alimentar a reafirmação de desigualdades já materializadas no âmbito social. Pretende-se, nesse sentido, definir a diferenciação entre homens, mulheres e matemática como não natural, e sim construída, com o valioso auxílio da linguagem e de tudo aquilo que ela abarca consigo.Abstract:The central question of the discussions held here is: "There are relations between the conceptions of gender, language and mathematics teaching?". Indeed, it is not uncommon encounter in with statements such as "boys are better able to learn mathematics than girls" or "women are very emotional and irrational", among others, that may have implications for the teaching of mathematics to from the moment we face such utterances in the light some concepts in the field of linguistics. Starting from certain assumptions related to the notion that we are beings where discourses estanciam and come alive, the statements cited above, once translated into the classroom, can feed the reaffirmation of inequalities already materialized in the social sphere. It is intended, in this sense, define the distinction between men, women and mathematics as unnatural, but constructed, with the valuable assistance of the language and all that it embraces you.

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Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment ◽

10.1192/apt.4.1.18 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 18-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Fitzgerald

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Young Children ◽

Free Association ◽

Structure And Function ◽

Free Play ◽

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽

Late Adolescents ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Psychic Structure ◽

And Function

The goal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a distressed child is to alter the child's psychic structure and function. The technique is based on the same theory as adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy (see Box 1). The unconscious is central, as is the interpretation of defence, resistance, transference, working through and the reconstruction of earlier life. It differs from adult psychotherapy in that the child's age and level of development are at all times central to the work. In young children the focus of interpretation is on free play, while with adults it is free association of ideas. In the treatment of adolescents a combination of techniques, both adult and pre-adolescent, are used, while for late adolescents the technique is basically adult technique with attention to issues relevant to that stage of the life cycle.

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