The Violence of Interpretation From Pictogram to Statement [Paperback]

Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker.

Piera Aulagnier's The Violence of Interpretationbridges 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 other'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 Interpretationis a welcome addition to the New Library of Psychoanalysis.

Foreword by Harold Blum. Translators Note. Preface. Part I: From Pictogram to Statement. The Activity of Representation, it's Objects and It's Aim. General General Considerations. The State of Encounter and the Concept of Violence. The Primal Process and the Pictogram. The Postulate of Self-procreation. The Conditions Necessary for the Represntability of the Encounter. The Borrowing Made From the Senory Model by the Activity of the Primal. Pictogram and Specularisation. Pictogram and Erogenous Pleasure. The Re-production of the Same. Concerning the Activity of Thinking. The Concept of the Primal: Conclusions. The Fantasy Representaion of the Primary Process: Thing-presentation and Word-presentation. Thing-presentation and Body Fantasisation. Fantasy Representation and the Unconscious. The Postulate of the Primary and the Economic Principle that Results From it. The Prototypes of the Secondary. The Appearance of Word-presentation and the Changes that it Imposes on the Activity of the Primary. The System l'