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THE SPEAKING BODY
Xth Congress of the WAP,
Rio de Janeiro 2016
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is an essential preliminary to the judging activity of conscience, is another of
them. And since when we recognize that something has a separate existence we
give it a name of its own, from this time forward I will describe this agency in
the ego as the ‘super-ego’.”
p. 60
“(…) the super-ego and the ego can operate unconsciously, or –and this would
be still more important– that portions of both of them, the ego and the super-
ego themselves, are unconscious.”
p. 69
“We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of
seething excitations. We picture it as being open at its end to somatic influences,
and as there taking up into itself instinctual needs which find their psychical
expression in it, but we cannot say in what substratum. It is filled with energy
reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organization, produces no collective
will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs
subject to the observance of the pleasure principle.”
p. 73
“Thus the ego, driven by the id, confined by the super-ego, repulsed by reality,
struggles to master its economic task of bringing about harmony among the
forces and influences working in and upon it.”
p. 78
« Analysis Terminable and Interminable » (1937). [SE, XXIII]
“Analysis, however, enables the ego, which has attained greater maturity and
strength, to undertake a revision of these old repressions; a few are demolished,
while others are recognized but constructed afresh out of more solid material.
These new dams are of quite a different degree of firmness from the earlier ones;
we may be confident that they will not give way so easily before a rising flood of
instinctual strength.”
p. 227
I /d. Correspondence
Extracts from the Fliess Papers (1896) [SE, I]
Draft K.
“The trend towards defence becomes detrimental,
however, if it is directed against ideas which are also able, in the form of
memories, to release fresh unpleasure –as is the case with sexual ideas.”
p. 221
Letter 52
“(…) As you know, I am working on the assumption
that our psychical mechanism has come into being by a process of
stratification: the material present in the form of memory-traces being
subjected from time to time to a
re-arrangement
in accordance with fresh
circumstances –to a
re-transcription
. Thus what is essentially new about
my theory is the thesis that memory is present not once but several times
over, that it is laid down in various species of indications.”
p. 233
“But pathological defense only occurs against a memory-trace from an earlier
phase which has not yet been translated.”
p. 235
Jacques Lacan