The Psychic Life: A Life in Time: Psychoanalysis and Culture
Last year I published an autobiographical text in the form of interviews with a young psychologist entitled Je me voyage. The title’s neologism gives a nod to my foreign status in the French language which has largely determined my psychosexual positioning in research and in writing; the psychic exp...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2018-12-01
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Series: | Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy |
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Online Access: | http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/860 |
Summary: | Last year I published an autobiographical text in the form of interviews with a young psychologist entitled Je me voyage. The title’s neologism gives a nod to my foreign status in the French language which has largely determined my psychosexual positioning in research and in writing; the psychic experience has been central to my life’s trajectory (which I will not elaborate on here.) In my familial context, culture constituted a world that made life liveable —and I experienced life, due to the importance accorded to language, as survival, as an intimate resistance and an inherent creativity in social time. |
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ISSN: | 2155-1162 |