›Die griechischen Ursprünge der Psychoanalyse‹

Sophistik und die Psychoanalyse

Abstract

This contribution consists in Cassin’s collection of quotes – an attempt to conceptualize psychoanalysis on the basis of antiquity’s Sophistic as it was criticized by both Aristotle and Plato. Of particular interest is how Sophistic has left its traces in the oeuvre of Jacques Lacan. In a rather playful manner Sophistic shall step out of the shadow of Aristotelean metaphysics. At the same time, psychoanalysis, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in particular, shall be presented in a new way as being radically founded on the impact and agency of the letter.