Commentary on Bruce Fink’s “On the value of the Lacanian approach to analytic practice”

Bernardi, Ricardo; Bernardi, Beatriz de León de

doi:10.1080/00207578.2019.1576135

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“…Second, and more important, all seven instincts are equally significant within the brain. Indeed, the lack of focus on emotions is a general criticism of Lacanian theory (Bernardi and de Bernardi 2019).…”

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Sex and Prediction Error, Part 2: Jouissance and The Free Energy Principle in Neuropsychoanalysis

Dall’Aglio¹

2021

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Jouissance refers to an excess enjoyment beyond (yet tied to) speech and representation. From the perspective of some Lacanian analysts, jouissance is precisely what testifies against any relationship to the brain— jouissance “slips” out of cognition. On the contrary, it is argued here that jouissance has a central place in contemporary neuropsychoanalysis. In part 1 of this series the metapsychology of jouissance was presented in relation to the real and symbolic registers. Here, in part 2, Mark Solms’s neuropsychoanalytic model of Karl Friston’s free energy principle is summarized. In this model, “predictions” aim to resolve prediction errors—most notably, those signaled by affective consciousness. “Surplus prediction error”—prediction error that arises at the point where the predictive model fails—is proposed to be a neural correlate of jouissance. This limit within prediction is analogous to the real as a structural negativity within the symbolic.

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Sex and Prediction Error, Part 2: Jouissance and The Free Energy Principle in Neuropsychoanalysis

Dall’Aglio¹

2021

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“…For example, Bruce Fink's work comparing Lacanian and non-Lacanian psychoanalysis has been criticized for simplistic reductions of analytic schools other than the Lacanian (see Fink 2019;Bernardi and de Bernardi 2019). This is, of course, due not to poor reading on Fink's part, but to the difficulty of being an expert in multiple psychoanalytic schools.…”

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Sex and Prediction Error, Part 3: Provoking Prediction Error

Dall’Aglio¹

2021

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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In parts 1 and 2 of this Lacanian neuropsychoanalytic series, surplus prediction error was presented as a neural correlate of the Lacanian concept of jouissance. Affective consciousness (a key source of prediction error in the brain) impels the work of cognition, the predictive work of explaining what is foreign and surprising. Yet this arousal is the necessary bedrock of all consciousness. Although the brain’s predictive model strives for homeostatic explanation of prediction error, jouissance “drives a hole” in the work of homeostasis. Some residual prediction error always remains. Lacanian clinical technique attends to this surplus and the failed predictions to which this jouissance “sticks.” Rather than striving to eliminate prediction error, clinical practice seeks its metabolization. Analysis targets one’s mode of jouissance to create a space for the subject to enjoy in some other way. This entails working with prediction error, not removing or tolerating it. Analysis aims to shake the very core of the subject by provoking prediction error—this drives clinical change. Brief clinical examples illustrate this view.

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Commentary on Bruce Fink’s “On the value of the Lacanian approach to analytic practice”

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Sex and Prediction Error, Part 2: Jouissance and The Free Energy Principle in Neuropsychoanalysis

Sex and Prediction Error, Part 2: Jouissance and The Free Energy Principle in Neuropsychoanalysis

Sex and Prediction Error, Part 3: Provoking Prediction Error

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