Reality, between neurophysiology and metapsychology

Main articles of French psychoanalysis

  • Vassilis Kapsambelis
Keywords: reality, mnestic trace, perception, hallucination, representation, mental apparatus, object of desire, animism, intentionality, desire of the Other

Abstract

In this article, the author profoundly explores the concept of reality in a metapsychological sense, based on a consistent and elegant analysis of this concept in the works of Freud, originally a neurophysiologist, and defines reality as a perceptual activity and its products, the object and, finally, the desire of the Other.

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Author Biography

Vassilis Kapsambelis

Vassilis Kapsambelis, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, titular member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, ex-director general of the Association of Mental Health of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, ex-director of the Center of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Evelyn and Jean Kestemberg, and editor-in-chief of «La Revue Française de Psychanalyse», author of numerous works, including on psychotic and borderline functioning.

Published
2024-04-07
How to Cite
KapsambelisV. (2024). Reality, between neurophysiology and metapsychology. Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 5(1), 6-18. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/21202
Issue
Vol 5 No 1 (2024): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS