Christos Tombras, "Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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What Happens in Psychoanalysis?
How does one understand the what happens in psychoanalysis when it works? Well, do you understand it in terms ofa draining or liquidating of the a real into the symbolic, or from the imaginary into the symbolicho? How do you see successful analysis? Yes, i am not completely sure if you can say that. I think, as we indicated earlier, the concepts real, symbolic and imaginary are concepts that describe all kinds of human actions. And they describe the ways of engagement that human beings have, regardless of whether they know it or not. But if you know it, which is something that the theory brings here in the picture, then allows you, if you are the analyst,
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