Affekt og effekt

Hvad bliver den freudske affekt til i Lacans psykoanalyse?

Abstract

Affect, in Freud's psychoanalysis, is the proper effect of repression. The french psyhoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who died in 1981, is more concerned by how the repressed is coming back and incorporated into the actual speach aet performed in the psychoanalytical situation. Therefore he is articulating the concept of affect into a structural part of the "phychic apparatus". Affect, in this respect, is representing the inherent difficulty of symbolic working-through. In Lacan's theory of the analytical speach aet, the IRS-system representent the connection between imaginary, symbolic and "real" trends in the psychic development. "Real" (the psychic real) is opposed to "reality" (outer reality), and is seen as an inner boundary to analytical efforts in psychoanalysis. Affect, therefore, as opposed to symbolic working-through, is the structural resistance of the psychic system as such.