https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2619 Index terms fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3828 While current studies of perversion focus on spectacular symptoms and neglect subjectivity, Freud and Lacan study perversion as a possible organization of subjectivity. Male fetishism illustrates the function of symbolic castration in subject-formation: when it is integrated, the subject structure will be normal; when it is kept at a distance by continuous anticipation, the result is the constitution of a fetish. The fetish inherits the value of the phallus, and functions like a metonymic object, like a veil that protects the subject from anxiety. Fetishists, who lack the paternal metaphor, are characterized by a splitting of the ego. Consequently, treatment should focus on structural understanding of the fetishistic subject, not at superficial behavior change. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:02 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:11 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3828 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2615 This paper addresses the role of anticipative and retroactive processes in the constitution of the human subject, taking as a guide the psychoanalytical concept of Nachträglichkeit. Firstly, this concept is situated within the Freudian account of psychic temporality. Secondly, it is shown how Lacan applies the concept to the becoming of the subject through language. To illustrate this process, a simplified version of Lacan's "Graph of Desire" is used. Thirdly, a metaphysical counterpart to the principle of Nachträglichkeit is described, the dialectical principle of "tarrying with the negative", as formulated by G. W. F. Hegel. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:12:12 +0200 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:12:20 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2615