Vol 23 (2) 2005
Between Language and Subject: On Thinking and Speaking in Aphasia – Ingrid Jans
“Morphogenesis” of the body: marked by the signifier? – Huguette Raes
Medusa’s gaze: The panoptical ideal questioned – Hilde Coppens
On bilingualism and the language of the unconscious – Timo Thibo
Contemporary Subjectivity: A Psychoanalytical Analysis of Postmodernity and its Symptoms – Lode Lauwaert
The Psychophysiological Unconscious – Gustav Theodor Fechner and the Moon – Mai Wegener
The Psychophysiological Unconscious – Gustav Theodor Fechner and the Moon
The author explores Fechner's understanding of the unconscious and in doing so emphasises the ambivalence of his conceptualisation, i.e., the scientific and the spiritu¬alistic side of his thinking. The Elemente der Psychophysik (1860) form the central, al¬though not...
Contemporary Subjectivity: A Psychoanalytical Analysis of Postmodernity and its Symptoms
In this article the author explores the possibility of a structural link between several cultural changes in contemporary society, better known as the very idea of a postmodern culture, and a significant change in clinical practice. Since the crisis of 1968, which was...
On bilingualism and the language of the unconscious
In psychoanalysis, as the talking cure, language asserts itself pre-eminently as the mode of treatment. Formations of the unconscious, like symptoms, dreams and slips of the tongue, can be interpreted on the basis of their underlying linguistic structure. Bilingual...
Medusa’s gaze: The panoptical ideal questioned
In the 18th century Bentham proposed the idea of the panopticon as a reliable method for exercising power. By capturing the gaze, the guard owns the power of seeing in order to force the prisoner to submit. In this way, the undesirable behaviour of the prisoner can be...
“Morphogenesis” of the body: marked by the signifier?
Starting from a number of remarks and hypotheses of authors such as Georg Groddeck, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jean Guir and Colette Soler about the entanglement of psyche and body, which, amongst other things, manifests itself in the activation of latent genes...
Between Language and Subject: On Thinking and Speaking in Aphasia
Based on his clinical work with patients experiencing severe aphasia, the author asks questions of both a scientific and existential nature. That language plays a role in thinking seems to be a commonly accepted proposition, but the nature and extent of that role are...