- Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
- Issue: 32
- THE PSYCHICAL FRAGMENTATION IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF SIGMUND FREUD AND JACQUES LACAN
THE PSYCHICAL FRAGMENTATION IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF SIGMUND FREUD AND JACQUES LACAN
Authors : Adele Bahroun
Pages : 421-431
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Publication Date : 2018-12-26
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This paper examines the major causes and symptoms of psychical fragmentation in the perspectives of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. These perspectives are pertinent to explore libidinal desire, the psyche and repression, and the unconscious as the essence of selfhood. The basic structures of civilization which entail rules and codes stand as deterrents and restraints that lead to psychical division and introversion as continual danger. The split between libidinal demand and satisfaction forms psychological gaps and void, entangling the subject into unconscious struggle for well-being. The subject’s sufferings from psycho-sexual repression, schizophrenia, neurosis, delirium and paranoia are implemented in fragmented discourses which imply repressed feelings, unfulfilled desires and unrealized dreams. These form the fragmented subjectivity. Henceforth, the subject resorts therapeutic strategies, seeking gratification and redemptionKeywords : fragmentation, psychoanalysis, psyche, libido