Publication
On the physiology of jouissance: interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a psychoanalytic perspective
Ariane Bazan and Sandrine Detandt. 2013. On the physiology of jouissance: interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a p...
Project
Cannon’s cats and Freud’s dream metaphor insight carry the keys to much human thought (and action)
Sigmund Freud in 1899, reported that the dream metaphor often provides the key to understanding the psychological origin of emotional distress (‘neurosis’), and Walter Cannon in 1915 elucidated the body’s response to emotional stress in cats, called the ‘fight or flight response’.
Project
Is there a future for the project of a clinical anthropology (‘patho-analysis of existence’)
Is it still possible and meaningful, as traditional psychoanalytic theory implies, to understand the relation between psychopathology and (philosophical) anthropology in a positive and structural way?
