Repenser la psychanalyse avec les sciences

The Oxford-style debate: the 15th neuropsychoanalysis congress, New York, 2014

“…In a similar process, Lacan's theory was built on structuralism and linguistics. Many psychoanalysts have borrowed concepts from other disciplines, such as "self-organization" (Pragier & Faure-Pragier, 2007), Prigogine and Stengers "strange attractors" (1984), "salience" and "pregnance" of mathematician René Thom (1991).…”

The edge of chaos: A nonlinear view of psychoanalytic technique

“…Over the past 40 years an ever enlarging circle of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented thinkers have come to believe that ideas from nonlinear dynamics should inform psychoanalysis (Galatzer‐Levy, , , , , , , a,b, in preparation; Moran, ; Ruelle, ; Spruiell, ; Duke, ; Langs and Badalamenti, ; Quinodoz, ; Boston Change Study Group ; Seligman, ; Piers et al, ; Marks‐Turlow, ; Pragier and Faure‐Pragies, ; Guastello, ; among many others). These contributions have used dynamic systems theory primarily to expand psychoanalytic theory and conceptualizations.…”