Sobre la dimensión representacional de la psique según Cornelius Castoriadis

Abstract

This paper proposes to recover the philosophical and psychoanalytic thought of Cornelius Castoriadis to deepen understanding of the representational dimension of the psychic life. First, I return to the way in which this author positions himself regarding the Freudian work and his ideas about the articulation between psyche, representation and imagination. Then, I address the original capacity of representation that Castoriadis postulates at the level of the psyche, revisiting the problems of the delegation of the drive and the emergence of the primal phantasies in the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. Finally, I propose a way of understanding the alterations of this representational capacity as stratified “modes of organization”, that is, as capacities of “putting into form” and “putting into meaning” qualitatively differentiable that are instituted in subjectivity during the psychogenesis.