psychoanalysis frees the subject to find satisfaction through the subject’s symptomatic disruption rather than continuing to view the disruption as the obstacle to the ultimate satisfaction that the subject is constantly missing. 56-57
🙂 – McGowan is using satisfaction and enjoyment interchangeably, point is satisfaction in symptom rather than viewing the symptomatic disruption as obstacle to something better.
The neurotic mistakes the experience of the death drive for the experience of desire, and psychoanalysis attempts to reveal the drive where the neurotic mistakenly sees desire.
Desire is nothing but a misrecognition of the death drive. 60
🙂 – McGowan’s point: consistency between 1895 Project and 1920 Beyond is emphasis on subject’s satisfaction. The subject attains satisfaction. Difference is 1895 it was discharge of excitation, but with the 1920 discovery of death drive, satisfaction is attained via repetition and return to original loss. The second point is the analytic cure does not consist in ridding analysand of symptom, rather the analytic cure consists in executing a more efficient route to her satisfaction. McGowan argues that analysand enters analysis due to symptom malfunctioning in her life, in other words she or he is dissatisfied with their satisfaction, they are satisfied, but dissatisfied with the circuitous nature of the route to satisfaction.
The cure McGowan suggests consists in freeing “the subject to find satisfaction through the subject’s symptomatic disruption rather than continuing to view the disruption as the obstacle to the ultimate satisfaction that the subject is constantly missing.” 56-57