par Detandt, Sandrine ;Bazan, Ariane
Référence Psychoanalysis in Our Time : Psychoanalytic interrogation of current affairs
Publication Non publié, 2015-03-14
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : A “neuropsychoanalytic” hypothesis for the physiology of jouissance is proposed (Bazan & Detandt, 2013). Jouissance is a Lacanian concept, famous for being impervious tounderstanding and which expresses the paradoxical satisfaction that a subject may derive fromhis symptom. On the basis of Freud’s “experience of satisfaction” we have proposed a firstdefinition of jouissance as the motor tension underlying the action which was [once] adequate inbringing relief to the drive and, on the basis of their striking reciprocal resonances, we have putforward the idea that central dopaminergic systems could embody the physiological architectureof Freud’s concept of the drive. This hypothesis has actually worked out quite well for the otherdimensions of jouissance, namely the intrinsic drive satisfaction, the bodily tension on the vergeof anxiety and pain and the historical inscription of a trait – which are all subserved by thiscentral dopaminergic system. Moreover, it now appears that what has caused the dopaminergicsurge in the case of an adequate action, might be more related to the sudden bodily shakerather than to the adequacy per se, as other sudden changes (or interruptions) of the state of thebody, in the cases of intrusion or trauma, also induce this dopamine release. This furthercorroborates the model, as trauma per excellence is known in a psychoanalytic framework toinduce a compulsive repetition of actions, which never were adequate to start with. We therebyredefine jouissance as the bodily tension typically arising with unpredicted intrusive changes ofbodily states and of which part is invested in motor movement with a determined form:independent of these actions having any adequacy towards the initial event causing the changeof state, their ability to discharge tension is a benefit as compared to stunning, and will causethem to be repeated.Bazan A., Detandt S. (2013) On the Physiology of Jouissance: Interpreting the Mesolimbic Dopaminergic RewardFunctions from a Psychoanalytic Perspective. In Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (709)