Psychical Causality
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.147
Presentation on Psychical Causality > /. *Critique of an Organicist Theory of Madness, Henri Ey's Organo-Dynamism*
Theoretical move: Lacan dismantles Ey's organo-dynamism by exposing its covert dualism and its idealist fantasy of "psychical activity" as adaptation, arguing that neither organicism nor a naive dialectical hierarchism can ground a genuine science of psychical causality—and that only a rigorously defined concept of the object can serve as the foundation for such a science.
I come upon 'this level characterized by the creation of a properly psychical causality,' and I learn that 'the reality of the ego is concentrated there'