Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance: Levels, Symbols, and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis (The Palgrave Lacan Series)

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic organizations. Underpinned by extensive practical knowledge of the clinic, this work examines the differences between Freud and Lacan in their understanding of the subject and the unconscious and pushes them in new directions. The book also offers an analysis and commentary of several key Lacanian texts including an accessible study of the notoriously challenging text __L'etourdit__. Offering both divergent and reinforcing takes on Lacan, the author explores the traits that separate out the psychoanalyst from other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists. This book offers a clear clinical picture of where Lacanian psychoanalysis is today, both in the US and internationally. Preface and Acknowledgements 6 Contents 11 List of Figures 13 List of Tables 14 Introduction: Lacan’s RSI and Freud’s Two Theories of Mind with Three Dimensions 15 1 The Clear Screen, Perception, and the Nature of Inscription 26 The Energetics/Dynamics of Thought and the Signifier 30 Potential and Kinetic Energy and Two Forms of Freedom and Binding 33 References 42 2 Instinct and Drive in Darwin and Freud, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Biology 43 References 57 3 The Grammatical Voice of the Drive 58 References 70 4 Signs, Objects, Icons (Images), Indexes, Representamen/Representations, Interpretants, and Habit in the Work of Peirce and in the Light of Lacanian Theory 71 What Is a Code 74 Semiosis, Habits of Action, and the Sign as a Triadic Relation 75 Semiosis, the Ideal-Ego, the Unary Trace, and the Symbolic Order 81 Sense, Logic, Number, and Code 83 References 100 5 The Ego, the Person, the Self, and the Subject 101 Personality as a Subset of Mind 102 The Ideal Ego 109 The Ego Ideal 111 The Ego in the Real 113 The Je and the Moi, the Ego and the Subject 116 References 120 6 The Symbolic in the Early Lacan as a Cybernetic Machine, as Automaton and Tyché, and the Question of the Real 121 Tyché and Automaton 123 The Signifying Machine 134 Memory and the Machine 139 The Symbolic Machine and Intersubjectivity 142 The Emptiness of the Other and the Subject 144 Conclusion 146 References 147 7 Like a Fool, Like a Bungler: Elucidating Lacan’s L’étourdit 149 The Semblance of Truth 151 The Question of L’étourdit as a Name 153 The Horizon of the Real 157 Conceptual Mathematics in L’étourdit 160 Consistency 172 Paraconsistent Logic and Dialetheism 174 Rules of Inference 180 The Lying Normalizing Narrative, and the False That Designates Truth Just as Well 188 References 190 8 The Rise and Fall of Cognition and the Realization of the Larger Mind of Unconscious Knowing (Savoir ) 192 Afflicted and Clear Emptiness 202 References 206 9 The Other Psychoanalysis and the Other in Psychoanalysis 207 References 217 10 Standard and Non-Standard Frames for the Practice of Analysis and the Question of Pure and Applied Psychoanalysis 218 Conclusion 242 References 243 11 The Lacanian School as an Organizational Structure 245 Introduction 245 Esprit de Corps 250 Work Transference 253 Dissolution 259 The Viability and Future of the Lacanian School as a Psychoanalytic Organization 263 References 271 Index 276 Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii The Clear Screen, Perception, and the Nature of Inscription (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 1-17 Instinct and Drive in Darwin and Freud, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Biology (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 19-33 The Grammatical Voice of the Drive (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 35-47 Signs, Objects, Icons (Images), Indexes, Representamen/Representations, Interpretants, and Habit in the Work of Peirce and in the Light of Lacanian Theory (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 49-78 The Ego, the Person, the Self, and the Subject (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 79-98 The Symbolic in the Early Lacan as a Cybernetic Machine, as Automaton and Tyché, and the Question of the Real (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 99-126 Like a Fool, Like a Bungler: Elucidating Lacan’s L’étourdit (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 127-169 The Rise and Fall of Cognition and the Realization of the Larger Mind of Unconscious Knowing (Savoir) (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 171-185 The Other Psychoanalysis and the Other in Psychoanalysis (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 187-197 Standard and Non-Standard Frames for the Practice of Analysis and the Question of Pure and Applied Psychoanalysis (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 199-225 The Lacanian School as an Organizational Structure (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 227-257 Back Matter ....Pages 259-269