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Невъзможният език на психоанализата
The Impossible Language of Psychoanalysis

Author(s): Milena Motsinova-Brachkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: free associations; slip; signifier and signified; symptom; metaphor; metonymy; the small a object; interpretation; syntom; parlêtre; lalangue

Summary/Abstract: Psychoanalysis, which has emerged as a method of healing through speech, is constantly changing because it takes into account the changing symbolic order and the emergence of an understanding of the unconscious other than what it is based on. In the beginning, the analysis of the unconscious in the Freudian sense is achieved through free associations and slips. Jacques Lacan’s early teachings introduced the idea of the unconscious structured as language, and the understanding of the symptom as a metaphor, and the Name-of-the-Father as the linguistic formula of the Freudian Oedipus complex. The latest, most difficult part of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its full development by Jacques-Alain Miller in the 21st century focuses on the analysis of parlêtre / the speaking being and on the idea of a syntоm that marks the enjoyment of the speaking body, abandoning the concept of language.

  • Issue Year: 30/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 159-173
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian