I researched and presented on the topic of actual neurosis recently, as I felt that there was not, in Lacan, a robust treatment of actual neurosis. It was an attempt to do a bit of the same syncretizing work that you seem to be doing here, and that Mitchell is doing in her book. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, it cost me a friend in the analytic community when I went off the Lacanian reservation…)
For a Lacanian treatment of the topic of actual neurosis look to the work of Paul Verhaeghe who uses the concept as a means of accounting for JA Miller and many other Lacanians call ordinary psychosis… search for Jonathan Redmond’s article comparing the two conceptualizations.
Bracha Ettinger would say there's no contradiction if and only if you add subsymbolic, corpo-real and transpersonal aspects of phantasy, to that which the "synthome" (sinthome/symptom + what sounds like these "early" unconcious-but-not-preconscious mechanisms and how they synergize and conflict with the phallic stuff that's already been elaborated) is negotiating. Her "matrixial" supplement also contains temporal, not only "time as spatial" stuff, for example intergenerational trauma has an aspect of both personal past and the lives of others, but i can't recall if she places klein's unconscious as only imaginary
fantastic! would love more of these comparisons
Thank you, Derek. Will you make the third part of Klein alongside Lacan?
I spot Fanon's 'Wretched of the Earth' in Derek's library
I researched and presented on the topic of actual neurosis recently, as I felt that there was not, in Lacan, a robust treatment of actual neurosis. It was an attempt to do a bit of the same syncretizing work that you seem to be doing here, and that Mitchell is doing in her book. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, it cost me a friend in the analytic community when I went off the Lacanian reservation…)
For a Lacanian treatment of the topic of actual neurosis look to the work of Paul Verhaeghe who uses the concept as a means of accounting for JA Miller and many other Lacanians call ordinary psychosis… search for Jonathan Redmond’s article comparing the two conceptualizations.
Bracha Ettinger would say there's no contradiction if and only if you add subsymbolic, corpo-real and transpersonal aspects of phantasy, to that which the "synthome" (sinthome/symptom + what sounds like these "early" unconcious-but-not-preconscious mechanisms and how they synergize and conflict with the phallic stuff that's already been elaborated) is negotiating.
Her "matrixial" supplement also contains temporal, not only "time as spatial" stuff, for example intergenerational trauma has an aspect of both personal past and the lives of others, but i can't recall if she places klein's unconscious as only imaginary