http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3815 Publications of Auteurs Jochem Willemsen fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3823 It seems that time functions essentially different in melancholia as compared to classical neuroses. We might even say the experience of time dissapears for the melancholicus. No future is anticipated, no past determines the actually lived distress, despair and guilt. This paper illustrates by means of a case study of a melancholic woman how anticipation is necessary for the subject to be able to live. Without desire for things to come, without a past that is experienced as something that anticipated the subject as it is now, there seems to be no more than an eternal now that stupifies the subject and blurs the distinction between death and living. The absence of the structuring function of time results in the experience of utter loneliness and anxiety and consequently also shows the dramatic impact of an absence of anticipation. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:14:29 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:20:09 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3823 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3817 In this paper, we will elaborate on an article by Helene Deutsch on the psychology of the impostor. The impostor is a specific type of liar who imposes on others dishonest stories about his identity. From a psychoanalytic point of view, identity is by definition fraudulent as there is no real Self. But the impostor duplicates this fraud by presenting dishonest stories about personal attainments, position, or worldly possessions. Referring to Freud's text on 'Two lies told by children,' we will demonstrate that in the neurotic subject (a) the motive for lying is love, and (b) the purpose of lying is to deny symbolic castration in order to preserve an imaginary ideal. The impostor takes this one step further: here the motive is not love but admiration, and the purpose is not denial but disavowal of the symbolic castration. Finally, we will discuss the ambivalent relation of the public towards the impostor that seems all too willing to be deceived. In that sense, the lies of the impostor anticipate the Other's truth about castration. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:45 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:56 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3817 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3809 In his article « Le temps logique et !'assertion de certitude anticip’e » Lacan makes a distinction between three different instances of time : « I 'instant de voir, le temps de comprendre et le moment de conclure ». The purpose of this paper is to explain how the body and its jouissance in the case of trauma may function as a kind of "moment the conclure" in such a way that the body acts without the subject's understanding of what is happening. Based on a case of trauma we will show how the body anticipates on a kind of enjoyment, without the subject knowing it, let alone being able to speak about it. "Le temps pour comprendre" comes with the subject wanting to know because this wanting initiates "!'instant de voir". If the subject comes to a real understanding via symbolization of what happens, this bodily inscribed knowledge may be transformed into symbolic knowledge. Ideally, this will provide the subject with the possibility of making a choice, instead of being subjected to the traumatic repetition compulsion. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:19 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:28 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3809