The Scopic drive and its destinies. The psychic functions of mask

The notion of scopic drive is essential in psychoanalysis. However, the powers of the gaze are an ancient theme already present in Greek mythology. The article makes connections between ancient mythology, psychoanalytic concepts and clinical issues. What is scopic drive? The article takes up again the question of the scopic drive of its mythological foundations until its representations in the contemporary art to show that « to watch » and « to be watched » are complex activities in psychic life, in which the question of the mask is inscribed. This research presents and questions the psychic functions of the mask, from a metapsychological point of view

La tentative de l'impossible (la pulsion et ses fictions, dans la métapsychologie et au-delà)

Cette recherche explore les places, les noms, les fonctions et les limites de la fiction dans ses relations à la métapsychologie. Ce travail comporte ainsi un versant épistémologique qui interroge les sources et les rôles de la fiction dans l'élaboration psychanalytique du concept de pulsion. L'auteur démontre que les fictions théoriques, voire mythologiques, correspondent à une tentative pour penser l'Inconnu et pour donner une place à ce qui échappe au savoir scientifique. La théorie des pulsions est située dans le processus de sa création et dans le contexte de pensées en mouvement. Un aspect important consiste à montrer comment la métapsychologie intègre à la fois un questionnement philosophique sur le statut des représentations et un savoir narratif de l'ordre du mythe. De cette manière, la fiction est approchée sous un angle dynamique: elle est semblable, notamment chez Freud, à une seconde navigation qui peut conduire la connaissance des pulsions vers les rivages du mythe et de l'art. Un autre aspect de cette recherche met en évidence la valeur de la parole, de l'expérience narrative et du récit fictif dans la clinique du sujet de la pulsion.This research explores places, names, functions and the limits of fiction in its relation to metapsychology. As such, this work has an epistemological angle, which looks at the sources and roles of fiction in the psychoanalytical elaboration of the drive concept. The author shows that theoretical or even mythological fictions, correspond to an attempt to think the Unknown as well as to assign a place for that which escapes the realms of scientific knowledge. The drive theory is located in the very process of its creation and in the context of the thoughts in motion. An important aspect is to show how metapsychology integrates a narrative knowledge as a myth. In this way, fiction is approached from a dynamic angle: particularly according to Freud, fiction is similar to a second navigation in which theory of drives can lead to myths and art. Another aspect of this research demonstrates the value of speech, of narrative knowledge and of fictive recounts in the clinic of the subject of the drive.NICE-BU Lettres Arts Sci.Hum. (060882104) / SudocSudocFranceF

VO Paris Federation

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International audienceVO Paris Federation is a partnership between Paris Obser-vatory, IAP, IPSL and CEA. Its objectives are to provide VO access toits databases ressources, contribute to international standards develop-ments, implement VO compliant simulation codes and data visualisa-tion and analysis software. The various activities are organised into por-tals whose functions are (i) to provide visibility and information on theprojects and (ii) to encourage collaborations. The portals are linked tothematic activities and resources: solar system (ephemerides, astrometry,physical characteristic of small bodies of the solar system, planetology),reference systems, exoplanet database, legacy (archives from the Nan ̧cayRadio Telescope, some specific data from the DENIS and EROS surveys,MAMA), solar physics, stellar and galactic databases and services, atomicand molecular databases and services, simulation codes and data analysis