Nr. 46 (2001)
Enjeux
de la théorie lacanienne [abstract]
[text]
Christian Demoulin
Over
de manie of de metonymische ontsporing
naar aanleiding van Binswangers Über Ideenflucht [abstract]
Piet Vanclooster
L.S.
Vygotsky en D.W. Winnicott:
een theoretische onderbouw
voor het belang van spel in de kinderanalyse [abstract]
Jeroen Donckers
Peirces
tekenconcept en de lacaniaanse betekenaar [abstract]
Bart De Lepeleire
De
behandeling van de betekenaar bij kinderen met autisme [abstract]
Luc Moreels
Van
de luchtspiegelingen van het weten naar de docta ignorantia:
een lezing van "Variantes de la cure type" [abstract]
Veroniek Knockaert
De
logische tijd:
een concept geïllustreerd vanuit de kliniek [abstract]
Mark Adriaensen
What is at Stake in Lacanian Theory
Christian Demoulin
It is argued that what is at stake in psychoanalytic theory, is first of all psychoanalytic practice, i.e. the endeavour to guide the psychoanalyst in bringing his conception of his experience above the level of common sense knowledge. Secondly, psychoanalytic theory must be constructed in such a way that it holds out from a scientific point of view. More specifically, Lacanian theory is a theory on the subject, on desire and on jouissance and must be situated in the intersection of cognitivism (the symbolic) and ethology (the imaginary), while it introduces a third dimension, that of the jouissance (the real). Furthermore, it is argued that psychoanalysis discovered that in the human animal language has emancipated itself from its operational function in that it parasitizes and transforms animal jouissance.
Key words: Psychoanalytical Theory, Epistemology, Jouissance, Cognitivism, Ethology.
On Mania or the Metonymical Derailment: a Reading of Binswangers Über Ideenflucht
Piet Vanclooster
This article reexamines Binswanger's construction of the manic form of Being-in-the-world as formulated in his Über Ideenflucht (1933). On the one hand, we confront Binswanger's phenomenological approach of the flight of ideas inspired by Heidegger's thinking with the classic natural scientific approach of that time. We discuss the way in which both approaches differ radically from one another and we probe deeper into Binswanger's criticism of Kraepelin, one of the most important representatives of the natural scientifically oriented psychiatry. On the other hand, we connect Binswanger's analysis of the manic form of Being-in-the-world as a particular way in which the manic subject relates to language, other and time with some propositions from Lacan's teaching on psychosis.
Key words: Flight of Ideas, Mania, Psychosis, Dasein, Metonymy, Binswanger, Kraepelin, Freud, Heidegger, Lacan.
Vygotsky and Winnicott: a Theoretical Underpinning for the Importance of Play in Child-Analysis
Jeroen Donckers
This paper is based on the experience of watching a piece of theatre in which children dub the dialogues of adults. In order to account for the observation that this dubbing as a form of repetition produces a gain without actually adding anything, we formulate the hypothesis that repetition in a child's play can have the value of an interpretation. We combine this with the clinical observation of Winnicott that playing in itself is therapeutic, illustrated by some short clinical vignettes. A first support for our hypothesis lies in the analysis of the Fort-Da game described by Freud. Furthermore we describe two essential aspects of the child's play: a supportive function for entering language and the creation of Desire while playing. These two aspects are clarified by making use of the theory of the Russian developmental psychologist Lev Semyonovitch Vygotsky.
Key words: Vygotsky, Winnicott, Psychoanalysis, Child-Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Play.
Peirces Concept of a Sign and the Lacanian Signifier
Bart De Lepeleire
According to Peirce the essence of the sign lies in its triadic interrelated structure, namely: a representamen, an object and an interpretant, in which the object is brought in relation to an interpretant by the representamen, such that the interpretant is, in turn, a sign of the same object. Lacans conceptualisation of the signifier shows a surprising resemblance with the ideas of Peirce about the sign. Thus their definitions reflect a same structure: the signifier as well as the sign have to be situated in a chain, for both an ultimate meaning is impossible and a meaning is always determined afterwards.
Key words: Lacan, Peirce, Sign, Signifier.
The Treatment of the Signifier for Children with Autism
Luc Moreels
The recent term of Disorder of the autismspectrum makes clear that nowadays autism becomes more and more an all-embracing, even empty diagnosis. Beyond this problematic labeling, Psychoanalysis deals with the symptom of the subject as a particular solution for the problem of the desire and the enjoyment of the Other. The symptom of the child can be considered within the structural opposition formulated by Lacan: the symptom as a representation versus a realisation of the truth of the parents. In a case of a ten year old boy with autism a symptom is analyzed in terms of a pure materialisation of the object a. The psychoanalytic intervention, based on the technique of bricolage, attempt to make tolerable and accessible the pure signifier, full of enjoyment of the Other, for the subject.
Key words: Autism and Autistic Spectrum, Case Study, Symptom, Object a, Pure Signifier, Enjoyment, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Technique of Bricolage.
From the Mirages of Knowing to the Docta Ignorantia, a reading of "Variantes de la cure-type"
Veroniek Knockaert
This article offers a close reading of Lacan's text "Variantes de la cure-type". Starting from the notion of deviation implicit in the title of this work, it is situated in the context of the institutional crises that marked the history of psychoanalysis in France in the period between 1953 and 1964. A second step dismantles the question of variations on the standard-cure as a pleonasm. In an attempt to avoid the aporia this implies, Lacan recenters the question around the position of the analyst in the field that founds itself in the relation of the subject to speech. The notion of narcissism as a function of the death drive and as the basis of knowledge is then introduced. Where common knowledge functions as a shield, a symptomatic manifestation of our own passion for ignorance, it has to be concluded that in the formation of the analyst a changed relation to knowledge holds a central place, a relation that permits the analyst to find his standard in a docta ignorantia.
Key words: Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Narcissism, Docta ignorantia, the Ontic Dimension of the Unconscious.
Logical time. A concept illustrated by the clinic
Mark Adriaensen
This article is in three parts. The first part follows J.-A. Miller's thinking on the unconscious as a subject, as a want-to-be, which gives it an ethical, rather than an ontological, status. This way of thinking is not only in opposition to, but in my opinion also in addition to, a classical mechanical way of thinking about the unconscious. The second part presents the concept of "logical time" and comments briefly on Lacan's article "Le temps logique et l’assertion de certitude anticipée". Both in this theoretical part and in the third part, a case study, we find arguments for the position that the unconscious, and psychoanalysis itself, should be approached from an ethical perspective, especially at the point where we meet the S(A/ ).
Key
words: Logical Time, S(A/ ),, Ethic, Clinic.
