Volume 20, nr. 1 (2002)
Over
de kracht van metaforen in poëzie en psychoanalyse [abstract]
[text]
Mark Adriaensen
De
hysterie stelt het wel,
in feite is het haar nog nooit zo goed gegaan:
bedenkingen naar aanleiding van Showalters Hystories [abstract]
Marc De Cuyper
Subject
en collectiviteit,
een interpretatie van Lacans "Le temps logique" [abstract]
David Blomme en Dominiek Hoens
Onvermogen
in de hulpverlening:
hoe gaan instellingen ermee om? [abstract]
Stijn Vanheule
Een
geval van erotomanie [abstract]
Stefan Verlinden
Refoulement,
pulsion et fin de la cure [abstract]
[text]
Frédéric Declercq
Freuds
Leonardo-studie:
het debat 1910-2000 [abstract]
Filip Geerardyn en Piet Vanclooster
About the power of metaphor in poetry and psychoanalysis
Mark Adriaensen
This article investigates the relationship between the poetic use of language and analytic interpretation. Poetry and psychoanalysis are strongly formalised practices which, by transgressing the laws of discourse, lay bare the intimate relation one has with jouissance, and in doing so, demonstrate many similarities. Both analytic interpretation and poetic scripture are born out of a violence against language, out of an attempt to create sense out of non-sense, and out of the suggestion that meaning and sound would have a natural connection. Above all, they share the same ethical aspiration, not to retreat before the impossible real. Each stumbles in its particular way at the attempt of the signifier to signify itself, but in such a way that the object a, rolling out of its narcissistic envelope, reveals itself. It allows the poet to illuminate the gap within the metaphor; to the analysand it offers the opportunity to change his position towards the jouissance.
Key words: Poetry, Metaphor, Interpretation.
Hysteria's doing well, in fact she has never had it so good: Reflections starting from Showalter's Hystories
Marc De Cuyper
This is a review of Elaine Showalter's book concerning the modern appearance of hysteria. We focused mainly on the Incest Recovery Movement and Multiple Personality Disorder, the new way for the hysteric to give shape to the impossible sexual relation. What can properly be defined as the forclusion of the subject and desire in modern trauma therapy, leaves only the option of the Real and its psychotic effects open to the patient.
Key words: Hysteria, Incest, Multiple Personality Disorder, Dissociation, Real.
Subject and Collectivity: An Interpretation of Lacan's "Le temps logique"
David Blomme en Dominiek Hoens
The rarely discussed text by Jacques Lacan, Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certitude, is subjected to a detailed analysis. After explaining the argument, the importance of the "sophism" is shown for Lacan's ideas about the subject and collectivity. Finally, the text is compared to Lacan's theory of the mirror stage. In this comparison it is shown, among other things, how "Le temps logique" anticipates an aspect of Lacan's theory that becomes an issue only later in his work.
Key words: Subject, Logical Time, Act, Collectivity, Anticipation.
How do Institutions deal with the Impossibility in Assistance?
Stijn Vanheule
In this paper the author considers the central problem in therapeutic assistance: the powerlessness of the therapist. Lacans discours-theory is used to illuminate this problem. Next the author considers the statute of the ego-ideal as a proposed solution to man's impotence. In considering how institutions deal with this impossibility, several strategies are situated: denying the relationship, standardising interactions, passing on responsibility, elevating details and using medication as a resort. Last but not least a possible psychoanalytic alternative is proposed.
Key words: Institutions, Impossibilities in Assistance, Discours-Theory.
A case of erotomania
Stefan Verlinden
Psychiatric classification of erotomania yields a variety of possibilities, situating erotomania along a continuum with personality disorders on one end and the schizophrenic disorders at the other end. The "Postulat Fondamental" of de Clérambault breaks with this tradition. With Freud and Lacan it gives rise to a structural analysis. In considering the relation to the Other, it facilitates the differentiation between erotomanic (psychotic) and neurotic (hysterical) structures. In this case special attention is given to the fragile libidinal balance, a support supplying erotomania that can easily tip over into a terrifying eroticomania.
Key words: Erotomanie, Eroticomanie, de Clérambault, Freud, Lacan.
Repression, the Drive and the End of the Analytic Treatment
Frédéric Declercq
The article treats of the double etiology of psychopathology. From the beginning Freud and Lacan stressed that repression is not the only cause. The article mainly considers the topic of the fixation of the drive (Freud) or the real jouissance (Lacan) as being the ultimate cause of psychopathological symptoms. Finally, it discusses Lacan's final developments on the end of the analytical treatment. According to Lacan, the end of the analytical treatment or the removal of symptoms in a permannent way has to do with the relation from the subject to his jouissance.
Key words: Fixation, Jouissance, Sexual Trauma, Sinthome.
Freud's Essay on Leonardo: The Debate 1910-2000
Filip Geerardyn en Piet Vanclooster
Starting from a critical reading of Freud's essay A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da Vinci, the author tries to assess whether it is still valuable. The historical debate between Schapiro and Eissler as well as to the more recent work of Maïdani Gerard and Collins is discussed. It appears that the central element of Freud's psychobiographical contribution, i.e., the interpretation of Leonardo's affective indifference and his inhibition in his artistic creation by his latent homosexuality, has found more support in recent biographical and iconographical research. More specifically, it is argued that Freud's intuitions, both with respect to the circumstances of Leonardo's early childhood, and to the uniqueness of his St. Anne with Two Others, have finally been accepted.
Key
words: Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Psychobiography, Applied Psychoanalysis,
Art.
