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Passion for the Human Subject - A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers (Paperback)
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Passion for the Human Subject - A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers (Paperback)
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The condition of the human subject demands that he acquire his
existence at the price of a real passion. And what indeed could
inspire more passion than this ambiguous being, constantly trying
to balance dynamically where nature and culture intersect? The
psychoanalytical approach launched by Freud a century ago has
constantly posited as a structural fact the precarious position of
human subjectivity. It conceives the latter as knocked off center,
even torn apart, by the different logics emanating from the
instances that make up the psychical apparatus.This book does not
conceive of the subject as supposed to represent the human person
as a whole, nor as the narcissistic image the latter can have of
him/herself, still less as the reflexive notion of self which tends
to designate an overall self-referential ( self-centered )
function. The subject the author is trying to define
psychoanalytically is not characterized by plenitude or
naturalness, but seems rather to define itself as a precarious
function, resulting from the human newborn s condition of
prematuration, and therefore from the earliest drive transactions
between the baby and its mother, including the mother s verbal and
gestural responses. Working as a psychoanalyst to help a patient
establish better bonds between the different registers of his
psyche does not imply giving in to unifying, globalizing,
simplifying, or isolating illusions, but rather requires that we
never lose sight of the heterogeneity (including the irremediable
differentiation of the sexes) which is just what Freud s
metapsychology introduced. Thus the ordeal of otherness with regard
to the sex we don t have, the language we don t speak, the means we
don t possess is indispensable in affirming a subjectivity."
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