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THE SPEAKING BODY
Xth Congress of the WAP,
Rio de Janeiro 2016
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whether, if the former is granted, they are necessarily
all
psychically determined?
(…) As far as I can see, every hysterical symptom involves the participation of
both
sides. It cannot occur without the presence of a certain degree of somatic
compliance offered by some normal or pathological process in or connected
with one of the bodily organs. And it cannot occur more than once –and the
capacity for repeating itself is one of the characteristics of a hysterical symptom–
unless it has a psychical significance, a
meaning
. The hysterical symptom does
not carry this meaning with it, but the meaning is lent to it, soldered to it, as it
were; and in every instance the meaning can be a different one, according to the
nature of the suppressed thoughts which are struggling for expression.”
p. 40-41
I /b. Sexuality, Libido, Sublimation
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
(1905). [SE, VII]
“What is substituted for the sexual object is some part of the body (such as
the foot or hair) which is in general very inappropriate for sexual purposes, or
some inanimate object which bears an assignable relation to the person whom
it replaces and preferably to that person’s sexuality (e.g. a piece of clothing or
underlinen).”
p. 153
“The same example, however, also shows us that any other part of the skin or
mucous membrane can take over the functions of an erotogenic zone, and must
therefore have some aptitude in that direction. Thus the quality of the stimulus
has more to do with producing the pleasurable feeling than has the nature of the
part of the body concern”
p. 183
The Psycho–Analytic View of Psychogenic Disturbance of Vision
(1910).
[SE, XI]
“Indeed, if we find that an organ normally serving the purpose of sense–
perception begins to behave like an actual genital when its erotogenic role
is increased, we shall not regard it as improbable that toxic changes are also
occuring in it.”
p. 218
« On Narcissism: An Introduction » (1914). [SE, XIV]
“(…) a unity comparable to the ego cannot exist in the individual from the
start; the ego has to be developed The auto-erotic instincts, however, are there
from the very first; so there must be something added to auto-erotism –a new
psychical action– in order to bring about narcissism.”
p. 77
“Let us now, taking any part of the body, describe its activity of sending sexually
exciting stimuli to the mind as its ‘erotogenicity’… ”
p. 84
“Sublimation is a process that concerns object-libido and consists in the
instinct’s directing itself toward an aim other than, and remote from, that of
sexual satisfaction; in this process the accent falls upon deflection from sexuality.
Idealization is a process that concerns the
object
: by it that object, without any
alteration in its nature, is aggrandized and exalted in the subject’s mind. (…)
The formation of an ego ideal is often confused with the sublimation of instinct,
to the detriment of our understanding of the facts. A man who has exchanged
his narcissism for homage to a high ego ideal has not necessarily on that account
succeeded in sublimating his libidinal instincts.”
p. 94
“It is true that the ego ideal demands such sublimation, but it cannot enforce it;
sublimation remains a special process which may be prompted by the ideal but
the execution of which is entirely independent of any such prompting.”
p. 94-95
“Further, the formation of an ego ideal and sublimation are quite differently
related to the causation of neurosis. As we have learned, the formation of
an ideal heightens the demands of the ego and is the most powerful factor
favouring repression; sublimation is a way out, a way by which those demands
can be met
without
involving repression.”
p. 95
« Instincts and Their Vicissitudes » (1915). [SE, XIV]
“An ‘instinct’ appears to us as a concept on the frontier between the mental
and the somatic, as the psychical representative of the stimuli originating from
within the organism and reaching the mind, as a measure of the demand made
upon the mind for work in consequence of its connection with the body.”
p. 121-122
« The Unconscious » (1915). [SE, XIV]
“In schizophrenics we observe –especially in the initial stages, which are so
instructive– a number of changes in
speech
(…) Some reference to bodily organs
or innervations is often given prominence in the content of these remarks.
To this may be added the fact that in such symptoms of schizophrenia as are
comparable with the substitutive formations of hysteria or obsessional neurosis,
the relation between the substitute and the repressed material nevertheless
displays peculiarities which would surprise us in these two forms of neurosis.”
p. 197
Sigmund Freud