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Number 20 - 2005 / 1





PHILOSOPHY OF MIND


The Philosophy of Mind (TEXT ON LINE)
Vincent Descombes. A conversation with Sergio Benvenuto



HYSTERIA, AGAIN



Eyes Wide Shut: The Woman Not Seen (TEXT ON-LINE)
Ellie Ragland

Organization in the Age of Hysteria (SUMMARY)
Howard S. Schwartz

    Keywords: Hysteria - Civilization - Dark ages - Imaginary - Symbolic
    Summary:
    Civilization and organization require interplay between the spontaneous imaginary and the objective character of the symbolic, but these two are always in tension. Hysteria represents an attempt to end that tension through the destruction of the symbolic by the imaginary. A psychoanalytic theory of hysteria, based on the work of Lacan, Verhaeghe and Chasseguet-Smirgel is developed. The interdependence and antagonism of the imaginary and the symbolic are explored. Four aspects of this antagonism toward organization are discussed.


REVIEWS

Christopher Bollas, Dark at the End of the Tunnel
and I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing
Pina Antinucci


OBITUARY
Aldo Carotenuto (1933-2005) - (TEXT ON-LINE)


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