Abstract

IBERTIS, Carlota. Figuration and figurability: in the beginning were the sensations. Nat. hum. [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.1, pp. 57-74. ISSN 1517-2430.

This paper examines the relationship between the dreamlike operation of plastic figuration and the notion of figurability in the 11th Conference of Introduction to Psychoanalysis. This operation, conceptualised as the conversion of the latent thoughts of dream into images, presupposes a series of conditions of possibility that Freud calls figurability. In this paper, we begin by discussing the concept of regression and its metapsychological assumptions. We then analyse the role of sensations and their memory registers. Finally, we explore the Freudian explanation of the pre-eminence of the visual over other types of sensations.

Keywords : oneiric figuration; figurability; sensations; regression; object presentation; word presentation.

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