Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance: Levels, Symbols, and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis

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This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic organizations. Underpinned by extensive practical knowledge of the clinic, this work examines the differences between Freud and Lacan in their understanding of the subject and the unconscious and pushes them in new directions. The book also offers an analysis and commentary of several key Lacanian texts including an accessible study of the notoriously challenging text L'etourdit. Offering both divergent and reinforcing takes on Lacan, the author explores the traits that separate out the psychoanalyst from other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists. This book offers a clear clinical picture of where Lacanian psychoanalysis is today, both in the US and internationally. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii The Clear Screen, Perception, and the Nature of Inscription (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 1-17 Instinct and Drive in Darwin and Freud, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Biology (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 19-33 The Grammatical Voice of the Drive (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 35-47 Signs, Objects, Icons (Images), Indexes, Representamen/Representations, Interpretants, and Habit in the Work of Peirce and in the Light of Lacanian Theory (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 49-78 The Ego, the Person, the Self, and the Subject (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 79-98 The Symbolic in the Early Lacan as a Cybernetic Machine, as Automaton and Tyché, and the Question of the Real (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 99-126 Like a Fool, Like a Bungler: Elucidating Lacan’s L’étourdit (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 127-169 The Rise and Fall of Cognition and the Realization of the Larger Mind of Unconscious Knowing (Savoir) (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 171-185 The Other Psychoanalysis and the Other in Psychoanalysis (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 187-197 Standard and Non-Standard Frames for the Practice of Analysis and the Question of Pure and Applied Psychoanalysis (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 199-225 The Lacanian School as an Organizational Structure (Raul Moncayo)....Pages 227-257 Back Matter ....Pages 259-269