Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis

Neill, Calum; Eyers, Tom

Abstract

This chapter provides a close reading of Lacan's essay ‘Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis’. In this écrit, Lacan situates aggression as a fundamental force in the emergence of subjectivity and in the formation of the ego in particular. In the process, Lacan challenges the traditional understanding of aggression as a purely destructive or negative force, linking it to Freud's notion of the death drive and his own developing idea of paranoiac knowledge.

Citation

Neill, C., & Eyers, T. (2024). Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis. In Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’. Routledge

• Acceptance Date: Aug 25, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Feb 23, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: May 11, 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9780415707961
• Keywords: Aggressiveness, psychoanalysis, mirror stage,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/829303