T02P02 Aimée. Culpabilidad, crimen y castigo

Madness from Within (Season 1 – 2022 Academic Year) Topic 2: Aimée Part 2: Guilt, Crime, and Punishment By Dr. José María Álvarez - Psychiatry and Mental Health Service, Río Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid (Spain). Date: May 18, 2022 On the way to the first interview with Aimée, Lacan was delighted to have found the patient with whom he could theoretically flesh out his thesis: paranoid, a writer, and with a criminal attack behind her. Everything was looking great. However, to his surprise, upon meeting her, he found that the delusion had collapsed. Curiosity about the reasons for the delusion led Lacan to investigate the characteristics of Aimée's personality in the period prior to the outbreak of paranoia and to pinpoint the circumstances in which the continuity of her existence was disrupted. There is nothing accidental about this. These movements in Aimée's personality obey a logic, a very rigorous one, that must be unraveled. But at this point, Lacan finds himself alone. The help of psychological and psychiatric theories seems insufficient, even useless, since attributing the crime to madness or degeneration offers little; even invoking an evil inner "kakon" does not entirely solve the problem. It is in this context that Lacan turns to psychoanalysis, hoping to find in it something more than descriptions and classifications of delusions, but something truly illuminating about the motivations that govern the human condition. In a very brief article by Freud ("Those Who Commit Crimes from a Feeling of Guilt," 1916), just a few lines dedicated to neurotics who commit certain misdeeds in order to be punished and thus appease the terrible sense of guilt that torments them, Lacan apparently found some light to clarify Aimée's intricacies. This could be so, although, curiously, this text by Freud is not included in the extensive bibliography cited by Lacan. *More articles and information on our website* https://www.laotrapsiquiatria.com *FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA* Facebook:   / laotrapsiquiatria   Twitter:   / laotrapsi   Instagram:   / laotrapsiquiatria   *ALSO IN PODCAST FORMAT* https://anchor.fm/laotrapsiquiatria