THE FABRIC OF AFFECT IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE

Preface to the English-language edition Xl
Preface to the French edition (1973) XIV

Introduction 1
The boundaries of the study 1
Terminology and semantics 4
Questions of method 8

Part I Affect in the psychoanalytic literature 11
1 Affect in Freuds work 13
Evolution of the conception cif the affect 13
Evolution of the conception cif anxiety (1893-1932) 59
Conclusion 70

2 An overall view of the psychoanalytic literature since Freud 73
Analytic bibliography of the principal English-Ianguage works on aifect 73
Theoretical positions on the affect in France 95

Part II Clinical practice in psychoanalysis: structures and processes 105
3 Affect in clinical structures 107
Affect in neurotic structures 108
Affect in psythotic structures 116
Between neurosis and psychosis 128
Condusion 138

4 Affect, the psychoanalytic process and the Oedipus complex 139
Affect and the raw materiaIs of analytic work 139
Schematic typologies of discourse 143
The Oedipus complex and the ordering of discourse 151

Part lII Theoretical study: affect, language and discourse; negative hallucination 159
5 Affect and the two topographical models 161
The paradoxical situation of affect in Freudian theory (quantity and quality) 161
First topography: affect and the unconsaous (language and discourse) 168
Second topography: affect and the id (the affective economy) 186
Second topography: affect and the superego (renunciation, idealization and affective extinction) 197
Second topography: affect and the ego (negative hallutination) 201

6 Draft for a theoretical model: the process 207
Affect, history, structure 207
A hypothetical theoretical model: the processo Locus of the affect 217
The economic and the symbolic: force and meaning 230
Postface 232
Psychoanalytic speech 232
Affect and instinctual impulses 234
Status of the primal phantasy 238
Repression and the phantasies 240
Language for Freud 244
A few thoughts on modern linguistics: the heterogeneity of the psychoanalytic signifier 247
The linkage of discourse 251
Negative hallucination 255
Process as model, living and experienced 257
Postscript 1 261
Postscript 2 275
The twofold theory 275
The observation of affects in infants 277
Some theoretical considerations born from clinical experience 280
Some remarks about a psychoanalytic theory of affects 281
Affects: indirect approach and deduction 283
Objects 287
Unconscious affects 289
History 291
Pregnancy and prominence 292
Postscript 3 295
Discriminating and not discriminating between affect and representation: questions 295
The singularity of the states of affect-representation non-discrimination 318
Conclusion 345
Bibliography 349
lndex 367