Back to Table of Contents
so as to find their most basic elements, with which thought, the linguistic world, and dreams are made. The analyst can dream about patients’ material and then come up with each concept's basic elements, which will eventually coalesce and become mental representations, emerging in the analyst’s mind as interpretations. He writes: “In the same way as we examined ideograms, we can examine our interpretations and decodify them, breaking them up into their simplest components. We can then formulate either an entire new interpretation or use only a part of what we could interpret - without our losing sight of the whole. Said another way, we can provide one alpha element at a time so that later on these elements can be gathered once a [alpha] function is established. That is, we can help build patients’ ability to construct meaning occurring first in the psychoanalytic field and later on introjected. On top of this, such a tack allows patients to acquire the ability to link one basic element to another. Using this approach, instead of making interpretations aimed at nuclei of non-thought, we can begin to construct alternative routes to thought. They would be a sort of by-pass, which, when successful, will transfer what cannot be thought into a mental space where it can be thought. What we would do is construct an apparatus for thinking” (Avzaradel, 2011, p. 852). In his recent synthetic work, Avzaradel (2024) charts the full arc of complex pathways “From Primordial Inscription to Word Representation”, and beyond, how the words come together in the most complex thought. Following up on his previous work, grounding himself additionally more specifically in Freud ’s definition of representation stemming from his “Study on Aphasia” (Freud 1891), as well as in his “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes” (1915b), “Ego and the Id” (1923); and, in Aulagnie r’s “Birth of a Body, Origins of a History” (2015), he theorizes the trajectory from soma to word and outlines several stages of this process: 1. the sensory impression experienced as self-generated and which, once perceived, leaves a mark, the mnemic trace; 2. the primordial representation of that trace is cathected by the instincts/drives, which forms the pictogram, a concrete image representation, seen in dreams (Freud 1900); and which carries in itself, perhaps by virtue of its similarity with ‘the thing’, and with ‘the object’, the potential to relate and to represent; 3. the visualizing of these pictograms forms concepts and representations of affects, building an image language that shapes the oneiric activity; 4. the verbal thought that stems from the word, both in the meanings that it holds and in its significant representation, which Freud describes in detail in work “On Aphasia” (1891/1953; 1891). Avzaradel notes that Freud’s definition of representation in his work on Aphasia, where he analyses the components of a word concept system and an object concept system is unsurpassed. The word concept system stores the surface forms of the name of the object, and
809
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online