Theorizable vs. Treatable Distinction
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.14
Self > Preface
Theoretical move: The passage establishes a programmatic argument that a genuinely materialist psychoanalysis must engage with the life sciences, and proposes a four-category taxonomy (theorizable/treatable) to map the limits and possibilities of Freudian-Lacanian analysis when confronted with neuroscientific findings, particularly neuropathologies—defending the position that such cases belong to a 'theorizable but not treatable' category rather than being wholly outside analytic reach.
four categories have to be acknowledged as permutations of this distinction: (1) what analysis can both theorize and treat; (2) what analysis cannot theorize but can treat; (3) what analysis can theorize but not treat; and (4) what analysis can neither theorize nor treat.