Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis by Thomas Svolos

Author:Thomas Svolos [Svolos, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karnac Books
Published: 2017-04-12T05:00:00+00:00

Interpretation as knowing how to read aims at reducing the symptom to its initial formula, i.e., the material encounter between a signifier and the body, the pure shock of language on the body. So, admittedly, to treat the symptom you have to pass through the shifting dialectic of desire, but you also have to rid yourself of the mirages of truth that this deciphering brings you and aim beyond, at the fixity of jouissance and the opacity of the real. (Miller, 2011, p. 152)

The question that I would pose to myself and my analyst colleagues is this: in what ways might the addiction complaints or addiction phenomena of today fall within this notion of a psychoanalytic symptom? Here, I think, there will be, of course, no rule, no general answer, each subject will need to be taken one by one. Does that addiction, as the subject goes through an analysis, as much suffering it may cause the subject, have the value of the “fixity of jouissance and opacity of the real” that Miller describes?

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