Vol 21 (1) 2003
“Frotteurism, Fetishism and co”: Rare Sexual Tendencies – Julien Quackelbeen
The Voice and the Invocative Drive – Veroniek Knockaert
Interpretation as/of Fiction. Julia Kristeva’s point of view – Kris Pint
Reflections on the wild growth of the Imaginary in Dissociative Identity Disorder: An approach from the mechanism of identification – Ellen Verhoeven
Forgotten voids in the Gaze. On Melancholia – Katrien Steenhoudt
Sexuality and the Real in Psychosis. Clinical Vignette – Rudi Loontiens
A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Approach of Anosognosia – Thomas Debaenst
A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Approach of Anosognosia
This article argues the case for increased recognition of a neuro-psychoanalytic vision within the field of neuroscientific research. It demonstrates how the neuro-psychoanalytic approach to concrete clinical problems can result in new clinical and theoretical...
Sexuality and the Real in Psychosis. Clinical Vignette
This article deals with the case-study of a psychotic subject in which jouissance and the fragmented body play a dominant role. The jouissance of an abusive mother is inscribed on the body of this subject, a subject who is compelled to mutilate his or her body in...
Forgotten voids in the Gaze. On Melancholia
The author reports on some structuring moments in the etiological history of melancholia from a metapsychological point of view. It is argued that this clinical picture tends to be too readily categorised as psychotic, leaving open the question of its psychic...
Reflections on the wild growth of the Imaginary in Dissociative Identity Disorder: An approach from the mechanism of identification
One of the most striking phenomena of recent psychiatric history is the quasi-epidemic increase in diagnosed cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder (the former Multiple Personality Disorder). Several critics have argued that the disorder is created in therapy or is...
Interpretation as/of Fiction. Julia Kristeva’s point of view
In this article, the author examines the validity of an interpretation of literature based on psychoanalytical theory. In the first part, he considers the metaphor that compares the text to a woman and the woman to a text, and investigates the relationship between the...
The Voice and the Invocative Drive
Lacan introduced the voice and the gaze as two new objects of the drive, besides the anal, oral and phallic object. In this article the author provides a brief overview of the conceptualisation of the voice and the invocative drive in Lacan's seminars. This overview...
“Frotteurism, Fetishism and co”: Rare Sexual Tendencies
In this paper some clinical fragments are presented to illustrate the delicate relationship between initial diagnostic assessment and the phenomenology that becomes visible through the gradual unfolding of an analytic cure. Examples of gerontophilia, apparently...