1st Edition
Passion for the Human Subject A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers
By Bernard Penot
Copyright 2008
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Each one of us has to be born "inter urinas et faeces", as St. Augustine so strikingly put it. More recently, Freud's 1915 discovery of 'instincts' - that is, 'drives' - and their 'viscitudes' leads us further to envision a human subjectivity that would have nothing mataphysical about it. The baby's "feeling of himself" first arises in the midst of the earliest interactions with his parental... Read more
Introduction -- The drive circuit as generator of subjectivation -- Oral drive functioning and subjection -- "A Child Is Being Beaten": the three stages of the subjectivation of fantasy -- The misfortunes of Sophie, or the bad subject to come -- Adolescence of the Freudian subject -- Foreclosure of signification and the suffering subject -- The key role of the phallus signifier in the subjectivation of sexuality -- Sublimation, latency, and subjectivation -- Unexpected drive subjects in the session -- The logical stages of subjectivation
Biography
Bernard Penot
