http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3833 Publications of Auteurs Abe Geldhof fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3838 A psychoanalytic cure brings about fundamental changes in a person's emotional, cognitive and behavioral life by rewriting the past, by transforming the fundamental fantasy. People suffering from drug addiction have been considered by Freud as unsuitable for psychoanalytic treatment because every difficulty in the cure draws them back to dope themselves. Contemporary psychoanalysts rather ask for interrogating psychoanalytic theory and practice instead of refusing those subjects that are under the spell of a total but devastating solution. In this paper we shed light on a man's changing process during his stay in a Therapeutic Community for addiction. By living in a drug-free environment that pulls him back into social bonds a process evolves that affects his fundamental fantasy. We have been able to discern how his interpretation as a preschooler of his mother's leaving has played an anticipatory role in his identity formation. In the discussion several questions are dealt with: Why does this non-psychoanalytic setting succeeds to trigger a 'psychoanalytic' process that would not have been possible in a classic talking cure? What lessons can be learned for psychoanalytic theory and practice ? Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:16:14 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:16:23 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3838 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3835 The subjective relation to the body is for every human being problematic. Especially at the point of sexuality. Because of the fact man speaks he doesn't coincide with his body. He has to invent. Contemporary scientific techniques make one able to change sex. For several people this is very good news. But are there people we should try not to realize their desire? We will contrast a patient from our private practice with the case of Daniel Paul Schreber. In the second case, no surgery was done, in the second there was. We will argue that in both cases the anticipation of becoming-woman was crucial. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:42 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:51 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3835 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3828 While current studies of perversion focus on spectacular symptoms and neglect subjectivity, Freud and Lacan study perversion as a possible organization of subjectivity. Male fetishism illustrates the function of symbolic castration in subject-formation: when it is integrated, the subject structure will be normal; when it is kept at a distance by continuous anticipation, the result is the constitution of a fetish. The fetish inherits the value of the phallus, and functions like a metonymic object, like a veil that protects the subject from anxiety. Fetishists, who lack the paternal metaphor, are characterized by a splitting of the ego. Consequently, treatment should focus on structural understanding of the fetishistic subject, not at superficial behavior change. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:02 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:11 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3828