{"id":12363,"date":"2013-12-09T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:53:59","slug":"mcgowan-notes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/12\/09\/mcgowan-notes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"mcgowan notes 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typical neurotics enter into analysis believing in their dissatisfaction. They complain of a symptom \u2013 insomnia, say \u2013 that functions as a barrier to their enjoyment. They view the analyst as a <strong>subject supposed to know,<\/strong> that is, as a subject who knows the secret of the symptom. Through the transmission of this knowledge, neurotics hope to overcome their symptom and become able to freely enjoy themselves without this hindrance. Through the duration of a neurosis, <strong>symptoms serve as a source of satisfaction for the neurotic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis emerges as a possibility only when this satisfaction becomes too troublesome, when the symptom begins to debilitate the neurotic and intrude on all aspects of the neurotic\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What neurotics don\u2019t see, however, is the satisfaction that the disruptiveness of the symptom offers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42 &#8211; Here McGowan makes the claim that the symptom actually offers satisfaction<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The goal of analysis does not consist in eliminating this disruptiveness but in changing the subject\u2019s relation to it.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rather than seeing the disruptiveness of the symptom as the barrier to a truly satisfying life, the subject must come to grasp this disruptiveness as the source of the subject\u2019s satisfaction<\/span><\/strong>. 56<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between psychoanalytic thought and the symptom marks the former\u2019s most dramatic point of rupture from forms of healing (including both other kinds of therapy and medicine). When patients come to their doctors exhibiting a symptom, doctors ideally attempt to treat the underlying illness in order to eliminate the symptom. The symptom is valuable for the doctor insofar as it proves an indication of the underlying illness that can be addressed. For psychoanalytic thought, the symptom is the indication of an underlying disorder, but at the same time it coalesces the subject\u2019s psychic existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical neurotics enter into analysis believing in their dissatisfaction. They complain of a symptom \u2013 insomnia, say \u2013 that functions as a barrier to their enjoyment. They view the analyst as a subject supposed to know, that is, as a subject who knows the secret of the symptom. Through the transmission of this knowledge, neurotics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/12\/09\/mcgowan-notes-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mcgowan notes 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-lacan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12373,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}