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This book brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalytic work by Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan, Jaak Panksepp's affective neuroscience, Karl Friston's free energy principle, Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialist philosophy, and Darian Leader's critique of jouissance in Lacanian theory. In doing so, it articulates a philosophical and scientific basis for Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis. A Lacanian perspective on Solms's recent neuropsychoanalytic developments in affective consciousness and predictive coding furnishes an immanent critique that advances both Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis.
Dall'Aglio develops novel propositions for conceptualizing the Lacanian real, symbolic, and imaginary registers in the brain, treating affect systems like signifiers, viewing jouissance as surplus prediction error, and conceiving the brain as structurally antagonistic. It presents fresh theoretical and clinical insights in a manner that will be accessible to the interdisciplinary fields it draws upon. It will appeal to those working in neuropsychoanalysis, clinical psychology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.
List of contents
Part I: Can there be a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis?.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Controversies, Criticisms, and Challenges of a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis.- Chapter 3: A Philosophical Basis for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis.- Part II: The Enjoying Brain.- Chapter 4: The Concept of Jouissance.- Chapter 5: The Free Energy Principle.- Chapter 6: Mark Solms's Neuropsychoanalytic Meta-Neuropsychology.- Chapter 7: Jouissance is Surplus Prediction Error.- Chapter 8: The Neuronal Real: Antagonism Immanent to the Brain.- Chapter 9: Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Knottings in the Predictive Model.- Part III: Developing Implications of a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis.- Chapter 10: The Critique of Jouissance.- Chapter 11: A Neuropsychoanalytic Contribution to Debates over Jouissance.- Chapter 12: Affects like Signifiers.- Chapter 13: Toward Levels of the Symbolic.- Chapter 14: Clinical Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis.- Chapter 15. Conclusion.
About the author
John Dall’Aglio is a Clinical Psychology PhD Student at Duquesne University, USA. His research focuses on the intersection of psychoanalysis and neuroscience, especially Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis.
Summary
This book brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalytic work by Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan, Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, Karl Friston’s free energy principle, Adrian Johnston’s transcendental materialist philosophy, and Darian Leader’s critique of jouissance in Lacanian theory. In doing so, it articulates a philosophical and scientific basis for Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis. A Lacanian perspective on Solms’s recent neuropsychoanalytic developments in affective consciousness and predictive coding furnishes an immanent critique that advances both Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis.
Dall’Aglio develops novel propositions for conceptualizing the Lacanian real, symbolic, and imaginary registers in the brain, treating affect systems like signifiers, viewing jouissance as surplus prediction error, and conceiving the brain as structurally antagonistic. It presents fresh theoretical and clinical insights in a manner that will be accessible to the interdisciplinary fields it draws upon. It will appeal to those working in neuropsychoanalysis, clinical psychology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.
