Much has been written about Jacques Lacan’s theory of the four discourses. His idiosyncratic employment of the term ‘discourse’ itself, however, has gone generally unexplored. This article demonstrates how Lacan’s conception of discourse as a structure founded on language and determining modes of relation emerged not only out of psychoanalytic practice, but also by way of a long-running conversation with the French linguist Émile Benveniste. Indeed, Lacan’s conception of discourse cannot be adequately comprehended if Benveniste’s work on the same topic is not taken into consideration. While Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and others were also at work offering theorizations of discourse in the 1960s, Benveniste was the privileged source, interlocutor and foil for Lacan’s theorizations. Tracking the manner in which the psychoanalyst drew on but also distinguished his perspective from that of the linguist allows us to reconsider the specifically psychoanalytic conception of this too-familiar term.
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{"title":"Amy Allen, Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis","authors":"L. Baraitser","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48205451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jonathan Sadowsky, The Empire of Depression: A New History","authors":"J. Busfield","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47918089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article casts light on the origins of infant psychiatry by taking a new, interdisciplinary approach to the work of psychoanalyst and film-maker René Spitz. Focusing on his observations of babies living in orphanages, it argues that by undertaking the difficult, and sometimes paradoxical, task of capturing emotional absence and psychological fragmentation on film, Spitz created a new and influential theory of the infant psyche. It considers how this vision of an indeterminate and potentially ‘empty’ infant subject was generated by the institutional care which he sought to undermine. The particular ways in which the institution emerges as a problem and opportunity for child analysts after World War II propelled Spitz into a surprising range of post-war debates on cultural politics. He is revealed as embedded in a complex, interdisciplinary web of discourse, practices and observational strategies, and at the centre of post-war visual research into the environmental origins of mental illness.
{"title":"René Spitz’s Empty Frames: ‘Hospitalism’, Screen Analysis and the Birth of Infant Psychiatry","authors":"Katie Joice","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0411","url":null,"abstract":"This article casts light on the origins of infant psychiatry by taking a new, interdisciplinary approach to the work of psychoanalyst and film-maker René Spitz. Focusing on his observations of babies living in orphanages, it argues that by undertaking the difficult, and sometimes paradoxical, task of capturing emotional absence and psychological fragmentation on film, Spitz created a new and influential theory of the infant psyche. It considers how this vision of an indeterminate and potentially ‘empty’ infant subject was generated by the institutional care which he sought to undermine. The particular ways in which the institution emerges as a problem and opportunity for child analysts after World War II propelled Spitz into a surprising range of post-war debates on cultural politics. He is revealed as embedded in a complex, interdisciplinary web of discourse, practices and observational strategies, and at the centre of post-war visual research into the environmental origins of mental illness.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41379759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jamieson Webster, Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis","authors":"Julien E. Fischer","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48366299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This introduction contextualizes Lou Andreas-Salomé’s 1916 essay ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’ within early psychoanalytic debates about anal sexuality, narcissism, and subject-formation, and gestures toward its relevance for recent thinking in queer theory and critical race studies. While Andreas-Salomé’s work has often been read as a gloss to Freud’s sexual theory, we emphasize the originality of her contributions to psychoanalytic discourse. Not only did ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’ impact Freud’s understanding of the long-lasting influence of anal repression on the psyche, but it anticipates the concerns of more recent theorists with how subjects are gendered and racialized through processes of corporeal symbolization.
这篇引言将Lou Andreas Salomé1916年的文章《肛门》和《性》置于早期关于肛门性行为、自恋和主体形成的精神分析辩论中，并表明其与酷儿理论和批判性种族研究中的近期思维的相关性。虽然安德烈亚斯·萨洛梅的作品经常被解读为弗洛伊德性理论的粉饰，但我们强调她对精神分析话语的贡献的独创性。“肛门”和“性”不仅影响了弗洛伊德对肛门压迫对心理的长期影响的理解，而且也预见到了最近理论家对主体如何通过物质象征过程被性别化和种族化的担忧。
{"title":"Introduction: The Genesis of ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’","authors":"S. P. Brilmyer, Filippo Trentin","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0408","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction contextualizes Lou Andreas-Salomé’s 1916 essay ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’ within early psychoanalytic debates about anal sexuality, narcissism, and subject-formation, and gestures toward its relevance for recent thinking in queer theory and critical race studies. While Andreas-Salomé’s work has often been read as a gloss to Freud’s sexual theory, we emphasize the originality of her contributions to psychoanalytic discourse. Not only did ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’ impact Freud’s understanding of the long-lasting influence of anal repression on the psyche, but it anticipates the concerns of more recent theorists with how subjects are gendered and racialized through processes of corporeal symbolization.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46984197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Brinkema, E. Clowes, Lee Edelman, David L. Eng, A. Holmes, Prathna Lor, T. Matysik, Zach Samalin, R. Soreanu, Selamawit D. Terrefe
{"title":"Responses to ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’","authors":"E. Brinkema, E. Clowes, Lee Edelman, David L. Eng, A. Holmes, Prathna Lor, T. Matysik, Zach Samalin, R. Soreanu, Selamawit D. Terrefe","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43764250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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