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| 題 名 | From Animals to Humans: Uexküll's Umwelt as Read by Lacan and Canguilhem |
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| 作 者 | 簡瑞碧; | 書刊名 | Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies |
| 卷 期 | 32:2 民95.09 |
| 頁 次 | 頁45-69 |
| 分類號 | 147 |
| 關鍵詞 | Uexküll; Lacan; Canguilhem; Umwelt; Milieu; Search image; Imago; Psychosis; The unconscious; Intermediary space; Symbolic space; Coding; Communication; Extension; |
| 語 文 | 英文(English) |
| 英文摘要 | Abstract This paper discusses the influence of the German biologist Jakob von Uexküll’s theory of the animal’s Umwelt on the French philosophers Jacques Lacan and Georges Canguilhem. Uexküll’s was a “vitalistic” theory, a “theory of the subject,” aspects of which Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger had not really explored. Discovering Uexküll in the 1930s, Lacan further developed the Uexküllian model of the animal’s “functional cycle” in the context of the human subject with its split into conscious and unconscious “discourses.” From Uexküll’s notion of the Suchbild (“search image”), which “breaks open” the functional cycle of thinking-behavior, Lacan derived his own concept of the psychotic patient’s imago. The science philosopher Canguilhem explicated Uexküll’s model of the organism’s inner/outer world in terms of the conception of (a series of) “intermediary symbolic space(s),” into which it keeps “extending” itself. Canguilhem’s focus on the central role of communicative signals in the organism’s forming of “meaning” echoes in certain ways Lacan’s insight into the psychotic subject’s inner-world “isolation,” the problem of patient-analyst communication. Both French thinkers are attacking, with their models of a self-generating and self-communicating “closed circuit” that can be “broken open” as it extends out into the world, not only the dominant European trend of mechanistic behaviorism, but also German Gestalt psychology, with its (Neo-Kantian) assumption of a pre-determined, a priori Gestalt to which all behavior must conform. |
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