http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=471 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1764 This papers deals with anticipation within a dynamically organised psychic system. We start with Freud's attempt to conceptualise such a system, in particular in his Project for a scientific psychology (1950a [1895]). Three subsystems are distinguished here : perception, memory and consciousness. They interact with each other and with the environment and are governed by the pleasure principle. The memory system forms the first important element in thinking the anticipatory capacity of the psychic system, the attention mechanism the second. With these two elements it will be shown how Freud can provide a basis for a dynamical approach of anticipatory systems wherein : the particular history of the interaction with the environment, its inscription in a memory system and, the development of an attention mechanism are important. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:23:24 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:30:54 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1764 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=2610 In this paper we take up the point of symbolic-imaginary anticipation and we combine it with the mirror stage, worked out by Jacques Lacan in numerous publications. We place the mirror stage within its complex temporal framework and explain how the three topological categories (RSI) follow from this most intimate of subjective experiences in the double mirror set up. All kinds of psychopathological mechanisms are traceable to this period in subjective development. Until recently it was impossible to find direct traces of this defining and unchanging moment. Since the beginning of 1990 a new method of therapy was devised in Duffel, named 'lichaamskaart', or body map. We point out the likeness and differences befween the double mirror stage and the construction of the lichaamskaart. In conclusion we illustrate the relationship between anticipatory systems and the therapeutic process involved in lichaamskaart. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:07:55 +0200 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:08:02 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2610 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1752 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. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:11:56 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:12:08 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1752 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1734 A neuropsychoanalytically framed hypothesis considering dreams as the 'motor exercising' of humans most typical behavior, namely language, is presented. In psychoanalysis dream bizarreness is often resolved by reading the dream content textually. It is defended that this literal interpretation comes down to analyzing langage on its articulatory or phonemic structure. While in awake language, lexical (or ego) control is exercised in such a way that scansion of the phoneme structure is operated meaningfully in line with the context, this control is thought not to operate in dreams where it is the motor part (i.e. the articulation) which is thought to be important. The uncontrolled running of these articulatory programs could then result in phonemic ambiguities, thereby accounting for the bizarre elements of the dream. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:31:11 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:31:25 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1734 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=468 The construction of non-natural systems endowed with a consciousness similar to that of human beings is one of the most challenging problems that science presently faces. Manifold reasons justify this situation, amongst which one is prevailing : that in spite of the countless papers written about it, our knowledge of the origins of human consciousness is practically null. This paper ventures a fresh way of regarding these questions following two unconventional approaches : (i) Pask's Conversation Theory (CT) which is introduced here as a means of providing a new epistemological/computational tack to the whole question, and (ii) a scrutiny of the relations baby/mother that will work as a prototype for the emergence of consciousness in artificial systems. The convergence of CT with the 'mechanisms' underlying such relations frames a theoretical and practical construct - an experimental robot named ACB2 - in which features belonging to a selfconscious being can already be witnessed. Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:45:40 +0200 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:45:56 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=468