de Rivoyre, Frédéric

“We are like ignorant stones. . .” - 2020.


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In writing Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920, Freud diverged significantly from his theoretical model to deal with a Real that expresses itself through repetition and that was not taken into account by the primary processes. Lacan addresses this question with his concept of jouissance. The jouissance of the primordial Other is carried by language as the death drive that must be repressed by another jouissance: the jouissance of the speaking being.