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Schizophrenia as a psychosomatic illness: An interdisciplinary approach between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the neurosciences
No full textInternational audienceSchizophrenia as a psychosomatic illness Dimitriadis Schizophrenia as a psychosomatic illness: An interdisciplinary approach between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the neurosciences Yorgos Dimitriadis, MD, PhD According to Lacan's theory of schizophrenia (as well as other delirious forms of psychosis), under certain conditions the signifying function breaks down, thus turning the schizophrenic individual's world into one in which a number of events become enigmatic and signal him or her. The schizophrenic individual tries to deal with these signs that besiege him or her either by means of an interpretative attitude (a stable delusional mood) or by apathy. These two types of responses correspond with the stereotypi-cal (and mood) processes by which the schizophrenic individual attempts to avoid the distress provoked by the enigmatic desire of the Other, while simultaneously corresponding with psychosomatic processes of the brain organ. (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 81[X], 1-18) To the best of my knowledge, Gustav Jung (2001) was the first to see the possibility of psychosomatic involvement of the central nervous system in schizophrenia, although he did not formulate his concept in these words. Jung felt that the brain, disturbed by tumultuous conflicts, would produce toxins that in their turn would damage the nervous system. It was Silvano Arieti (1959) who first posed this question explicitly in his Handboo
Introduction
No full textInternational audienceIntroduction d'un livre collectif sous la direction de Yorgos Dimitriadis, Christian Hoffmann et Lissy Canellopoulos paru chez "Hermann" en octobre 2016Dans ce livre collectif, issue d'un colloque qui s'est tenu à Athènes en 2014, sont traités trois questions essentielles sur «le corps en crise dans le monde contemporain» à partir de la pratique médicale et de la clinique psychanalytique : La première touche aux innovations remarquables de la médecine contemporaine qui, avec le progrès de la science et les avancées techniques, ignore, malgré tout, de plus en plus le corps pulsionnel. La seconde aborde la constatation que plusieurs maladies - qui avaient un aboutissement rapidement fatal - tendent, désormais, à se perpétrer durant des décennies avec des effets importants sur la subjectivité des malades. Last but not least, la crise du corps contemporaine est aussi en relation, avec une crise du symbolique, et s'exprime par des effets de retour, dans le réel du corps, de moignons de symbolisation, qui - des messages publicitaires aux œuvres artistiques, et jusqu'aux actes compulsifs qui le détruisent - manifestent un nouveau type de malaise : des phénomènes d'embrasement de la jouissance
Introduction
No full textInternational audienceIntroduction d'un livre collectif sous la direction de Yorgos Dimitriadis, Christian Hoffmann et Lissy Canellopoulos paru chez "Hermann" en octobre 2016Dans ce livre collectif, issue d'un colloque qui s'est tenu à Athènes en 2014, sont traités trois questions essentielles sur «le corps en crise dans le monde contemporain» à partir de la pratique médicale et de la clinique psychanalytique : La première touche aux innovations remarquables de la médecine contemporaine qui, avec le progrès de la science et les avancées techniques, ignore, malgré tout, de plus en plus le corps pulsionnel. La seconde aborde la constatation que plusieurs maladies - qui avaient un aboutissement rapidement fatal - tendent, désormais, à se perpétrer durant des décennies avec des effets importants sur la subjectivité des malades. Last but not least, la crise du corps contemporaine est aussi en relation, avec une crise du symbolique, et s'exprime par des effets de retour, dans le réel du corps, de moignons de symbolisation, qui - des messages publicitaires aux œuvres artistiques, et jusqu'aux actes compulsifs qui le détruisent - manifestent un nouveau type de malaise : des phénomènes d'embrasement de la jouissance
Introduction
No full textInternational audienceIntroduction d'un livre collectif sous la direction de Yorgos Dimitriadis, Christian Hoffmann et Lissy Canellopoulos paru chez "Hermann" en octobre 2016Dans ce livre collectif, issue d'un colloque qui s'est tenu à Athènes en 2014, sont traités trois questions essentielles sur «le corps en crise dans le monde contemporain» à partir de la pratique médicale et de la clinique psychanalytique : La première touche aux innovations remarquables de la médecine contemporaine qui, avec le progrès de la science et les avancées techniques, ignore, malgré tout, de plus en plus le corps pulsionnel. La seconde aborde la constatation que plusieurs maladies - qui avaient un aboutissement rapidement fatal - tendent, désormais, à se perpétrer durant des décennies avec des effets importants sur la subjectivité des malades. Last but not least, la crise du corps contemporaine est aussi en relation, avec une crise du symbolique, et s'exprime par des effets de retour, dans le réel du corps, de moignons de symbolisation, qui - des messages publicitaires aux œuvres artistiques, et jusqu'aux actes compulsifs qui le détruisent - manifestent un nouveau type de malaise : des phénomènes d'embrasement de la jouissance
Quelle est la spécificité des transitions balkaniques ?
No full textRizopoulos Yorgos. Quelle est la spécificité des transitions balkaniques ?. In: Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 30, 1999, n°4. Les transformations économiques dans la péninsule balkanique, sous la direction de Yorgos Rizopoulos. pp. 5-13
The Psychoanalytic Concept of Jouissance and the Kindling Hypothesis
No full textThis article aims to define the conceptual field of jouissance in Lacanian theory, and put forth the hypothesis of a relationship between certain neurophysiological mechanisms and specific clinical phenomena where jouissance is “kindled” and outside the control of the symbolic process. First, the author briefly introduces Lacan's notion of jouissance and the way it draws on Freud's theorization, and describes the preliminary stages of this conceptual field in Lacan's work. Then, the jouissance related to two other concepts: repetition, with its Freudian and Lacanian nuances, as well as the—exclusively—Lacanian concept of the object petit a. Lacan's later conceptualization of language as jouissance (the notion of lalangue) is then discussed in relation to Freud's early ideas (“Letter 52”) on the different kinds of inscriptions that help form the mental apparatus. Finally, the author tries to formulate a hypothesis regarding specific neurophysiological mechanisms, based on clinical situations where jouissance becomes “kindled” and escapes the control of the symbolic processes through the neurophysiological mechanisms of conditioning, “kindling-sensitization” and “excitotoxicity.” In these cases, jouissance can have a destructive effect on the body and can affect, among others organs, the brain—a process the author has previously described heuristically as the “psychosomatic diseases of the brain.” This would be a special mechanism of automatism that would be triggered under the specific conditions of the fragility of the signifying chain (foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father or solidification of the signifying chain) in combination with biological factors, including genetic factors. In this process, signifiers are reduced to signals, which in turn may be reduced to stimuli, with a tendency toward self-perpetuation, while affects are reduced to emotions and moods. Thus, conditioning and kindling-sensitization could also be understood in terms of a “semiotic reduction.” Can we therefore consider that certain phenomena of automatism and certain deficits (delusional moods, schizophrenic apathy, etc.) could be seen as psychosomatic disorders of the brain? The phenomena in question might also serve—albeit at random—as a kind of shield to mitigate excessive jouissance
Episode: Phaedrus (247c6-8) by Yorgos Kentrotis, translated and introduced by Paschalis Nikolaou
No full textYorgos Kentrotis was born in 1958 in Laconia, the Peloponnese. Following studies in Law at Greek and German universities, he was eventually won over by literature and translation. He is currently Professor in Translation Theory at the Ionian University in Corfu. Since the early 1980s he has steadily produced translations from ancient Greek, Latin, German and Russian–of works by, among others, Plato, Cicero, Robert Musil, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Bertolt Brecht. His essays and monographs on comparative literature, poetics and translation are widely recognized. A first collection of his poems appeared in 2006; Kentrotis has published five collections since. In 2014, he put out a collection of no less than 500 of Brecht’s poems in Greek translation, as well as a selection of epigrams from the Palatine Anthology. A similar edition of Paz’s poetry is forthcoming. Most recently in 2015, he published the long-awaited Greek translation of Giambattista Vico’s (1668–1744) La Scienza Nuova (1725)
Episode: Phaedrus (247c6-8) by Yorgos Kentrotis, translated and introduced by Paschalis Nikolaou
No full textYorgos Kentrotis was born in 1958 in Laconia, the Peloponnese. Following studies in Law at Greek and German universities, he was eventually won over by literature and translation. He is currently Professor in Translation Theory at the Ionian University in Corfu. Since the early 1980s he has steadily produced translations from ancient Greek, Latin, German and Russian–of works by, among others, Plato, Cicero, Robert Musil, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Bertolt Brecht. His essays and monographs on comparative literature, poetics and translation are widely recognized. A first collection of his poems appeared in 2006; Kentrotis has published five collections since. In 2014, he put out a collection of no less than 500 of Brecht’s poems in Greek translation, as well as a selection of epigrams from the Palatine Anthology. A similar edition of Paz’s poetry is forthcoming. Most recently in 2015, he published the long-awaited Greek translation of Giambattista Vico’s (1668–1744) La Scienza Nuova (1725)
La politeia aristotélicienne, Yorgos OIKONOMOU
No full textVient de paraitre le nouveau livre de Yorgos OIKONOMOU La politeia aristotélicienne Ed. Papazisi, Athènes, 2008, p. 16
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency
No full textDrawing upon qualitative data on Albanians residing in Italy and Greece, this article furnishes new insights into the topic of undeclared migrant construction workers’ agency. It analyses different types of undeclared work through Katz’s theoretical framework that suggests a disaggregated conceptualisation of agency. In so doing, it adds to thinking on the factors shaping fluidity between types of agency and challenges dichotomous views on passive or voluntary participation. The article also highlights that mutual interests between workers and employers enable migrant builders to defy and resist state regulations, despite the impacts of undeclared work on workers and the fact that power dynamics are unequal. Thus, the main contribution the article makes is to suggest a more nuanced understanding of labour agency that may go beyond the conflict between employers and workers. Overall, the article highlights the relevance of this study for different economic sectors, geographical areas and migrant groups
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