The Limit: a Fundamental Question for the Subject in Human Experience

Authors

  • Willey Apollon Freudian School of Quebec and GIFRIC, psychoanalyst and philosopher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.3.1.1391

Abstract

From oneself to the Other, from the unpresentable quest of desire to the space of the receivable structured by the social link, from the audible (where the time of the quest is structured) to the visible (where the absence of its object reveals itself), the human lacerates itself in the impossible articulation of a passage to the limit. Borders that are forever to be reconstructed recount something that is impossible to say, in the process of which each one of us ceaselessly redefines his or her position in the difficult response to the only question that counts: "up to what point can I go too far, without cutting myself off from others?"

Author Biography

Willey Apollon, Freudian School of Quebec and GIFRIC, psychoanalyst and philosopher

Philosopher and psychoanalyst.  Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti.  Doctoral thesis in philosophy, directed by Gilles Deleuze, published as Le vaudou, un espace pour les voix [Voodoo : a Space for Voices] (Éditions Galilée).   Cofounder, in Quebec City, 1977, of GIFRIC (Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherche et d’intervention clinique).   Cofounder, in 1982, of Center for the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Young Adult Psychotics (the « 388 »).  Cofounder of Freudian School of Quebec in 1997.  Numerous publications on psychoanalysis, psychosis, culture, including, with Danielle Bergeron and Lucie Cantin, After Lacan : Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (ed. Robert Hughes and Kareen Ror Malone, SUNY Press, 2002).

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Published

2010-12-28

How to Cite

Apollon, W. (2010). The Limit: a Fundamental Question for the Subject in Human Experience. Konturen, 3(1), 103–118. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.3.1.1391