Associationism
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.77
JACQUES LACAN ECRITS > PART I. PSYCHOLOGY WAS CONSTITUTED AS A SCIENCE WHEN THE RELATIVITY OF ITS OBJECT WAS POSITED BY FREUD, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS RESTRICTED TO FACTS CONCERNING DESIRE.
Theoretical move: Lacan mounts an immanent critique of associationist psychology, arguing that by defining psychical phenomena as a function of truth (rather than reality) and smuggling in uncriticised philosophical presuppositions (atomism, the idealist associative link), it fails to constitute a positive, objective science—thereby clearing the ground for a genuinely scientific psychology of desire.
associationism will strikingly reveal to us its metaphysical implications… associationist theory is dominated by the 'function of truth.'