Maladaptation Without Remainder
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.208
12. > F r o m P s y c h o a n a l y s i s to the Neurosciences
Theoretical move: Johnston argues that neither naturalism nor antinaturalism adequately captures the human subject's psychical constitution; against Žižek's (sometimes) absolute antinaturalism, he proposes a dialectic of incomplete, "uneven" denaturalization in which archaic evolutionary strata and sociosymbolic orders remain in irreducible, conflictual tension—a position he claims is borne out by convergences between Damasian neuroscience and Lacanian metapsychology.
a dis- or maladaptation as a sharp, absolute rupture with anything 'natural' is, in a number of ways, far more adaptive than the partial and incomplete denaturalization