https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3819 Index terms fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=4603 In this paper we investigate in which way the transcendental proof for the antinomy of pure reason, as presented by Kant and Fichte, can clarify something concerning anticipation. Kant, and especially Fichte, derive from this proof (by way of a reduction ad absurdum) that all forms of thinking presuppose the principle of identity, opposition and limitation. As a consequence, this means that anticipation, as a form of thinking, must presuppose all three principles. How do these three principles, concerning anticipation, function? Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:14:46 +0200 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:14:52 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=4603 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3817 In this paper, we will elaborate on an article by Helene Deutsch on the psychology of the impostor. The impostor is a specific type of liar who imposes on others dishonest stories about his identity. From a psychoanalytic point of view, identity is by definition fraudulent as there is no real Self. But the impostor duplicates this fraud by presenting dishonest stories about personal attainments, position, or worldly possessions. Referring to Freud's text on 'Two lies told by children,' we will demonstrate that in the neurotic subject (a) the motive for lying is love, and (b) the purpose of lying is to deny symbolic castration in order to preserve an imaginary ideal. The impostor takes this one step further: here the motive is not love but admiration, and the purpose is not denial but disavowal of the symbolic castration. Finally, we will discuss the ambivalent relation of the public towards the impostor that seems all too willing to be deceived. In that sense, the lies of the impostor anticipate the Other's truth about castration. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:45 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:56 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3817