Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis (Figures of the Unconscious 7)

Tinneke Beeckman, University of Brussels Ray Brassier, Middlesex University, London. Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia Andreas De Block, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Marc de Kesel, Radboud University Nijmegen, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and the Arteveldehogeschool, Ghent Philip Derbyshire, Birkbeck College, University of London Brian Garvey, Lancaster University Tomas Geyskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Christian Kerslake, Middlesex University, London Stella Sandford, Middlesex University, London Philippe Van Haute, Radboud University Nijmegen and Belgian School for Psychoanalysis In __Origins and Ends of the Mind__, a collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are arranged between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy of mind on the other. Psychoanalysts claim that states of mind are inexorably structured by children's relationships with their parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology, and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently reintroduced the claim that mental development and pathology are to a large degree determined by innate factors. Today, Lacanian psychoanalysis most vigorously defends psychoanalytic theory and practice from the encroachment of the biomedical and cognitive sciences. However, classical psychoanalytic theories--the Oedipus complex, primary and secondary repression, sexual difference, and the role of symbols--are being dismantled and reintegrated into a new synthesis of biological and psychological theories Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis 4 Table of contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 9 Introduction 10 1. The Origin and End of the Mind 10 2. Attachment 17 3. Evolutionary Psychology 19 4. Mentalisation 23 References 29 Part One Origin and End: Relations between Psychic Origins and Psychic Normativity 30 The Missing Link betweenPsychoanalysis and Attachment Theory:Michael Balint’s New Beginning 32 1. Introduction 32 2. Attachment in the Work of Melanie Klein 34 3. Michael Balint: Primary Object-Love and the ‘New Beginning’ 35 4. ‘New Beginning’ and the Kleinian ‘Positions’ 38 5. A Structural Confusion of Tongues? 40 6. Conclusion 42 Bibliography 43 Quasi-beliefs and Crazy Beliefs: Subdoxastic States and the ‘Special Characteristics’ of the Unconscious 46 1. Vertical and Horizontal Explanations 46 2. Informational Encapsulation and the Interpreter’s Perspective 50 3. Subdoxastic States 53 4. The special characteristics and the therapeutic project 62 References 66 Paradoxes of Normativity in Lacanian Psychoanalysis Or: Is Castration Necessary? 68 1. Lacan and the Problem of Normativity 70 2. The Dialectic of Desire 74 3. The Dialectic of Imaginary Rivalry 79 4. Symbolic Identification 81 5. Lacanian Anthropology 82 6. Structuralism and Objective Normativity 86 7. Motivations for Symbolic Castration 87 8. The Paradox of the Real 90 References 94 Lacan and Ethics: The Ends of Analysis and the Production of the Subject 96 1. Freud and Lacan on the Ends of Analysis 97 2. Function and Field of Speech and Language 99 3. Seminar XI 100 4. The Sinthome 103 5. Conclusion 106 References 108 Part Two Psychoanalysisand Evolution 110 The Ultimate Causes of Paranoia:A Cross-pathological and Psychodynamic Approach 112 1. Towards a Darwinian Model of Paranoia 112 2. Persecutory Thoughts and Megalomania 115 3. A Darwinian Psychodynamics of Paranoid Schizophrenia? 117 4. Conclusion: The Freudian Roots, the Advantages, and the Shortcomings of a Darwinian Psychodynamics (of Paranoia) 121 References 122 Reinterpreting Freud’s Genealogy of Culture 126 1. Nietzsche: Naturalism and Genealogy 128 1.1 Human, All too Human (1878) 128 1.2. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) 130 2. Freud on cultural transmission 133 2.1 Freud on culture and psychopathology between 1910 and 1915 134 2.2. Freud on Moses 138 Conclusion 142 References 142 The Thanatosis of Enlightenment 144 References 157 Part Three Philosophy and the Psychosexual Subject 158 Poetic Pleasure, Psychosis, and Perversion: Freud on Fore-pleasure 160 References 171 The Origins and Ends of ‘Sex’ 172 1. Freud: the Origins of Sex 175 2. Lacan: The Ends of Sex 184 References 192 Love as Ontology: Psychoanalysis against Philosophy 194 1. Preamble: The Indifference of Psychoanalysis to Ontology 194 2. From the symptom to the transference 197 3. ‘What is your ontology?’ 202 4. Terminably interminable 209 References 210 Psychoanalysis: A Non-Ontology of the Human 212 1. Today’s Ontologies 212 2. The Axiom of Psychoanalysis 214 3. Psychoanalysis: a non-ontology of the human 218 4. Re-ontologizing the Non-ontology of the Human 223 References 225 List of Contributors 226 9789058676177 LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS Psychoanalysis claims that the individual human mind is structured by its childhood relationships with its parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently re-introduced new dimensions of innateness into mental development and pathology. If attachment is an instinct, then what is the psychological status of the child's relation to the mother? If the mind is in part a product of evolution, then how far down do the inhibitory mechanisms of the mind go? If the mind of the child is shaped by their encounter with a set of prohibitions, how, in the light of contemporary 'cognitive science' and philosophy of mind, can the child be conceived as 'taking on' a rule? How is the construction of the mind related to the normative ends of cognitive experience? Today, it is Lacanian psychoanalysis which most vigorously defends psychoanalytic theory and practice from the encroachment of the biological and 'cognitive' sciences. But a paradigm shift nevertheless appears to be underway, in which the classical psychoanalytic theories about the Oedipus complex, primary and secondary repression, sexual difference and psychosexuality, the role of symbols,etc, are being dismantled and reintegrated into a new synthesis of biological and psychological theories. In this collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are brought about between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand, and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology and philosophy of mind on the other. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie Figures of the Unconscious 7In Origins and Ends of the Mind, a collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are arranged between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy of mind on the other. Psychoanalysts claim that states of mind are inexorably structured by children's relationships with their parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology, and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently reintroduced the claim that mental development and pathology are to a large degree determined by innate factors. Today, Lacanian psychoanalysis most vigorously defends psychoanalytic theory and practice from the encroachment of the biomedical and cognitive sciences. However, classical psychoanalytic theoriesthe Oedipus complex, primary and secondary repression, sexual difference, and the role of symbolsare being dismantled and reintegrated into a new synthesis of biological and psychological theories. "In this collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are brought about between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand, and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology and philosophy of mind on the other."--Jacket.