A psychoanalytic enquiry on symbolic function Giuseppe Iurato To cite this version: Giuseppe Iurato. A psychoanalytic enquiry on symbolic function. 2016. hal-01361264v4 HAL Id: hal-01361264 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01361264v4 Preprint submitted on 18 Jan 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. A psychoanalytic enquiry on symbolic function Giuseppe Iurato E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract. In this contribution1, on the basis of the recent psychoanalytic clinic, we would like to deepen the underlying psychoanalytic bases to human symbolic function which might be considered as the outcome of the dialectic interplay between two concomitant and opposite Ego’s subagencies always present in every human being which, in turn, would be the outcome of an Ego’s splitting mainly according to the last 1938 Freudian thought based on disavowal mechanism2 and supported by the thought’s system of other post-Freudian authors, above all H. Nunberg, D. Lagache, J. Lacan, F. Dolto and M. Recalcati. The main idea around which revolves this note is as follows3. Putting the disavowal mechanism as a general psychic process extended to all the possible painful perceptions, its outcomes are mainly two basic subagencies of Ego agency, partially opposed yet interrelated of each other, to be precise the Ideal Ego and the Ego’s Ideal, from whose dialectic interaction, also with the involvement of the Super-Ego agency, takes place most of the subsequent psychic life4, including symbolic function as well as degenerative behaviours.