Centered on language and, therefore, on word-representation and thing-representation, Freudian psychoanalysis encompasses the field of thought processes without ever attempting to provide a systematic theory of thought. This theory of thought, in permanent elaboration, is considered here both as a desire and as an “act of the flesh”. The impulses, the emotions and the affects, all indicate --like a red thread-- the constant implication of the body in thought. Since desire requires delay, then it is essentially masochistic. As such, he must be invested with a masochism that allows him to apprehend the future. If thinking is a characteristic of the human, and it guarantees an inalienable freedom, then it demands in return the renunciation of immediate pleasure. Hence its obvious link with pain and primary erogenous masochism, a concept that Marilia Aisenstein places at the core of all t...read more
