https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1742 Publications of Auteurs Gertrudis Van de Vijver fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3333 In §40 of his Critique of Judgment, which is part of the deduction of pure aesthetic judgments, Kant states that, in the case of the appreciation of beauty, it is necessary to proceed in three steps : (i) thinking for oneself ("Selbstdenken"), (ii) thinking in the place of someone else ("An der Stelle jedes andern denken"), (iii) thinking in accordance with oneself("Jederzeit mit sich selbst einstimmig denken"). We consider this way of proceeding as an instantiation of the process of identification, and will address the question why Kant did not articulate a similar reasoning in relation to living systems, that he deals with in the second part of this Critique. We will explore the epistemological potential of identification - which implies a form of anticipation – in relation to living systems and will set out the epistemological specificities that emerge from this viewpoint. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:11:26 +0200 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:11:33 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3333 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2639 Systems Biology aims to take up the challenge of the post-genome era by developing means to handle the data flood in the contemporary 'omic' sciences. One of the challenges is to 'turn data into knowledge', which gives rise to the question of the functional meaning of the structural data. Systems Biology tries to answer this question by capturing the organisation of a biological system through mathematical and computational modelling. In this regard, however, there is some ambiguity concerning the notions of function, wholeness and system. In this paper, we intend to discuss this ambiguity by analysing the status of modelling in Systems Biology. We do so by articulating the source of the tensions between a relational and a mechanistic approach of living systems, and will inquire upon the potential relevance of a relational account for current Systems Biology. We draw upon Robert Rosen's relational account, in which functionality is an intrinsic and essential part of the organisation of a living system. An organism is complex, e.g. not amenable to a mechanistic, classical or engineering analysis. In this viewpoint, which is quite similar to Kant's, functionality has to be presupposed in order to 'save' the organism as a living system, It is the status of this presupposition that qualitatively distinguishes a mechanistic from a relational account, and it is the potentiality of that idea which deserves further investigation in current Systems Biology. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:33:42 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:05:18 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2639 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2336 Starting from an explicitation of anticipation as a dynamic movement between living systems and their environments that is (i) a symbolic process; (ii) motivated by a search for satisfaction; (iii) a social movement, we will question the limits of anticipatory processes in psychic phenomena. In this questioning, Lacan's orders of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real are central concepts that lead to an elaboration of the relationship between the real, trauma and anticipation. In a first step, we will briefly discuss Freud and Lacan's conception of trauma. In a second step, we will oppose trauma and the lacanian notion of the phantasm. On the one hand, this leads to an elaboration on trauma as the origin of the coming into being of the subject and on the other hand, this permits a characteization of trauma as an encounter with the real. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:25:51 +0200 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:26:00 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2336 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2335 In Freud's theory of mind anticipation seems to be most intimately related to his conception of the mechanism or automatism of repetition. In this paper we rely on both Freud's and Lacan's explanation of the clinical phenomenon of the compulsion to repeat in order to shed more light on some aspects of the life and work of E.A. Poe. More specifically, we argue that Poe's biography as well as his Tales of mystery and imagination and above all, his poetry, witness both of the repetition determined by the signifier (automaton) and of the repetition of what has not been(tuché). Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:17:26 +0200 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:17:34 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2335 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2323 It is argued that different viewpoints on anticipation are determined by different metaphysical backgrounds. Three metaphysics are discussed and compared: one related to Greek philosophy, one related to Kant's viewpoint in bis Critique of Pure Reason, and one related to the Lacanian viewpoint on the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:34:51 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:45:21 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2323 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1818 In his Ecrits, Lacan discusses the determination of human speech. In his commentary on Poe's 'The purloined letter' he tries to show that the sequence of signifiers is not arbitrary but governed by an internal logic. In 'Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir' he tries to show how this chain of signifiers is constituted in a double movement : on the one hand there is the linear succession of signifiers, on the other hand there is an anticipatory movement. We would like to combine these two lines of thought and illustrate this double determination with Freud's case study of the Ratman. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:08:41 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:46:44 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1818 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1812 In "The Mirror Stage", Lacan describes the process of identification in terms of a combination between "insufficiency" and "anticipation". The infant precipitates from his motoric and language impotence towards an anticipation of an identity, which is, in first instance, supported by the image. In recognising himself in the image, in identifying with the image, the infant anticipates a totality but at the meantime he alienates himself in the image. The image, as a rigid structure, will never adequately "re-present" the subject, but it will nevertheless serve to escape the situation of a "corps morcelé", of a non-unified, a non-totalized body. This paper analyses the relation between insufficiency and anticipation on the basis of Lacan's article. The broader aim is to embed this psychoanalytical viewpoint in a more general theory of complexly organized dynamical systems. In this approach, cohesive forms or structures, such as human subjects, agents, or psychic structures, are considered to take shape at various levels in a developmental history in which the mechanisms of identification and anticipation play a crucial role. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:07:04 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:47:03 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1812 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1764 This papers deals with anticipation within a dynamically organised psychic system. We start with Freud's attempt to conceptualise such a system, in particular in his Project for a scientific psychology (1950a [1895]). Three subsystems are distinguished here : perception, memory and consciousness. They interact with each other and with the environment and are governed by the pleasure principle. The memory system forms the first important element in thinking the anticipatory capacity of the psychic system, the attention mechanism the second. With these two elements it will be shown how Freud can provide a basis for a dynamical approach of anticipatory systems wherein : the particular history of the interaction with the environment, its inscription in a memory system and, the development of an attention mechanism are important. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:23:24 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:30:54 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1764 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1752 Within the Freudian frame of reference, the emergence of a psychical level or the coming into being of the subject implies the initial loss of a primal object. From then onwards, the human sexual relation appears as determined or structured by this initial loss in that any finding of an object is in fact a refinding of it (Freud, 1925h). Evidence for this can abundantly be found in the love life of the human being. What then are the specific conditions for the refinding of the object ? It will be argued that this implies (i) the qualification of the object as partial ; (ii) a circular causality that involves at least the levels of memory (memory trace of the partial object), the drive and the other. In that sense, the subject unconsciously anticipates the finding or refinding of the object. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:11:56 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:12:08 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1752 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1734 A neuropsychoanalytically framed hypothesis considering dreams as the 'motor exercising' of humans most typical behavior, namely language, is presented. In psychoanalysis dream bizarreness is often resolved by reading the dream content textually. It is defended that this literal interpretation comes down to analyzing langage on its articulatory or phonemic structure. While in awake language, lexical (or ego) control is exercised in such a way that scansion of the phoneme structure is operated meaningfully in line with the context, this control is thought not to operate in dreams where it is the motor part (i.e. the articulation) which is thought to be important. The uncontrolled running of these articulatory programs could then result in phonemic ambiguities, thereby accounting for the bizarre elements of the dream. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:31:11 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:31:25 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1734