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Tables of Contents for The Violence of Interpretation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Translator's note
xii
Foreword
xiv
Preface to this edition
xvi
Preface
xxv
Part One: From pictogram to statement
1
128
The activity of representation, its objects and its aim
3
13
General considerations
The state of encounter and the concept of violence
The primal process and the pictogram
16
24
The postulate of self-procreation
The conditions necessary for the representability of the encounter
The borrowing made from the sensory 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 representation of the primary process: thing-presentation and word-presentation
40
31
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 of primary meanings
The pleasure of hearing
From the desire to hear to the desire to understand
Concerning the persecuting object
Signs and the language of the primary
Signs and the discourse of others
The space where the I can come about
71
58
The organisation of the space where the I must come about
The `word-bearer'
The violence of anticipation (the spoken shadow)
The effect of repression and its transmission
Conjugation and syntax of a desire
The violence of interpretation: the risk of excess
The reduplication of violence: the basic language
The deferred action of the naming of the affect
The desire of the father (for a child, for that child)
The encounter with the father
The narcissistic contract
The I and the conjugation of the future: concerning the identificatory project and the splitting of the I
Annex: what I mean by the concepts of symbolic and imaginary
Part Two: The interpretation of violence and primary delusional thinking
129
100
Concerning schizophrenia: the potential for psychosis and primary delusional thinking
131
46
Schizophrenia, paranoia, primary delusional thinking: geneal considerations
The space in which schizophrenia can come about
The failure of repression in the mother's discourse
Excessive violence: the appropriation by the mother of the child's activity of thinking
Forbidden knowledge and delusional theories concerning origins
The story of Mme B... and primary delusional theory concerning origins
The necessary factor for psychotic potentiality to remain such
The historical reality and the effect of reduplication
Concerning paranoia: primal scene and primary delusional thinking
177
43
The fantasy of the primal scene and infantile sexual theories
The conditions necessary for fantasy re-elaboration
The `heard' scene and its representation in paranoia
Accounts heard
The `family portrait': failed idealisation and the appeal to the persecutor
What the child `hears' and the `delusional theory concerning origins'
The theses defended in the trial to the persecutor
M. R...'s story
By way conclusion: the three ordeals that delusional thinking reshapes
220
9
The encounter between the primal and the organisation of the outside-self
The encounter between the primary and the signs of reality
The encounter between the I and the identifying discourse
Notes
229
10
Index
239