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The Violence of Interpretation: from Pictogram to Statement The Violence of Interpretation Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker. Joyce MacDougall and Nathalie Zaltzman have provided an entirely new preface for this edition. Piera Aulagnier’s The Violence of Interpretation bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children’s early experiences. The author’s analysis of the relationship between the mother’s communications and the infant’s psychic experience, and of the pre-verbal stage of development of unconscious fantasy starting from the ‘pictogram’, have fundamental implications for the psychoanalytic theory of development. She developed Lacan’s ideas to enable the treatment of severe psychotic states. Containing detailed discussion of clinical material, and written in the author’s precise yet provocative style, The Violence of Interpretation is a welcome addition to the New Library of Psychoanalysis. Piera Aulagnier was a French psychoanalyst in private practice, and a prominent member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She died in 1991. THE NEW LIBRARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS The New Library of Psychoanalysis was launched in 1987 in association with the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London. Its purpose is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of what psychoanalysis is really about and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those working in other disciplines such as history, linguistics, literature, medicine, philosophy, psychology and the social sciences. It is intended that the titles selected for publication in the series should deepen and develop psychoanalytic thinking and technique, contribute to psychoanalysis from outside, or contribute to other disciplines from a psychoanalytical perspective. The Institute, together with the British Psycho-Analytical Society, runs a low- fee psychoanalytic clinic, organises lectures and scientific events concerned with psychoanalysis and publishes the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. It also runs the only UK training course in psychoanalysis which leads to membership of the International Psychoanalytical Association—the body which preserves internationally agreed standards of training, of professional entry, and of professional ethics and practice for psychoanalysis as initiated and developed by Sigmund Freud. Distinguished members of the Institute have included Michael Balint, Wilfred Bion, Ronald Fairbairn, Anna Freud, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, John Rickman and Donald Winnicott. Volumes 1–11 in the series were prepared under the general editorship of David Tuckett. Volumes 12–39 appeared under the general editorship of Elizabeth Bott Spillius. Subsequent volumes are under the general editorship of Susan Budd. Ronald Britton, Eglé Laufer, Donald Campbell, Michael Parsons, Rosine Jozef Perelberg, David Taylor and Stephen Grosz have acted as associate editors for various periods. 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Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2001 Piera Aulagnier Translation © Alan Sheridan All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-36129-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-37385-5 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-23675-4 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-23676-2 (pbk) For Corneille and Claude Contents Translator’s note xii Foreword xiv Preface to this edition xvi Preface xxv Part One: From pictogram to statement 1 1 The activity of representation, its objects and its aim 3 1 General considerations 2 The state of encounter and the concept of violence 2 The primal process and the pictogram 16 1 The postulate of self-procreation 2 The conditions necessary for the representability of the encounter 3 The borrowing made from the sensory model by the activity of the primal 4 Pictogram and specularisation 5 Pictogram and erogenous pleasure 6 The re-production of the same 7 Concerning the activity of thinking 8 The concept of the primal: conclusions 3 The fantasy representation of the primary process: thing-presentation and word-presentation 40 I Thing-presentation and body fantasisation 1 Fantasy representation and the unconscious 2 The postulate of the primary and the economic principle that results from it 3 The prototypes of the secondary ix Contents II The appearance of word-presentation and the changes that it imposes on the activity of the primary 1 The system of primary meanings 2 The pleasure of hearing 3 From the desire to hear to the desire to understand 4 Concerning the persecuting object 5 Signs and the language of the primary 6 Signs and the discourse of others 4 The space where the I can come about 71 1 The organisation of the space where the I must come about 2 The ‘word-bearer’ 3 The violence of anticipation (the spoken shadow) 4 The effect of repression and its transmission 5 Conjugation and syntax of a desire 6 The violence of interpretation: the risk of excess 7 The reduplication of violence: the basic language 8 The deferred action of the naming of the affect 9 The desire of the father (for a child, for that child) 10 The encounter with the father The narcissistic contract The I and the conjugation of the future: concerning the identificatory project and the splitting of the I Annex: what I mean by the concepts of symbolic and imaginary Part Two: The interpretation of violence and primary delusional
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