Anticipation, the Subject and the Partial Object : A Psychoanalytic Approach
p. 222-228
Abstract
Within the Freudian frame of reference, the emergence of a psychical level or the coming into being of the subject implies the initial loss of a primal object. From then onwards, the human sexual relation appears as determined or structured by this initial loss in that any finding of an object is in fact a refinding of it (Freud, 1925h). Evidence for this can abundantly be found in the love life of the human being. What then are the specific conditions for the refinding of the object ? It will be argued that this implies (i) the qualification of the object as partial ; (ii) a circular causality that involves at least the levels of memory (memory trace of the partial object), the drive and the other. In that sense, the subject unconsciously anticipates the finding or refinding of the object.
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Bibliographical reference
Filip Geerardyn, Veroniek Knockaert, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, David Van Bunder and Ariane Bazan, « Anticipation, the Subject and the Partial Object : A Psychoanalytic Approach », CASYS, 12 | 2002, 222-228.
Electronic reference
Filip Geerardyn, Veroniek Knockaert, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, David Van Bunder and Ariane Bazan, « Anticipation, the Subject and the Partial Object : A Psychoanalytic Approach », CASYS [Online], 12 | 2002, Online since 16 July 2024, connection on 20 September 2024. URL : http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1752
Authors
Filip Geerardyn
Research Unit Neuropsychoanalysis, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, University of Ghent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent.
Veroniek Knockaert
Research Unit Neuropsychoanalysis, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, University of Ghent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent.
Gertrudis Van de Vijver
Research Unit Neuropsychoanalysis, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, University of Ghent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent.
David Van Bunder
Research Unit Neuropsychoanalysis, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, University of Ghent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent.
Ariane Bazan
Research Unit Neuropsychoanalysis, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, University of Ghent, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent.