The paradoxical dimension of thinking (part two). The meaning of the analysis. The vertigo of the surface

Abstract

The author advances the hypothesis that at the basis of the paradoxical dimension of thought there is an experience that is in fact paradoxical, whereby paradox and meaning become two faces of understanding itself. The author shows how Corrao’s work on meaning allows us to understand the whirlwind steps necessary to give a new scientific status to psychoanalysis, which with Freud had abolished the normal/pathological contrast and which with Bion is preparing to welcome contemporary epistemology to overcome the inadequacy of positivist science to study life in its production and change. Corrao underlines how meaning is formed in the complex field of interaction that establishes intersubjectivity and arises from non-sense. The perceiving event becomes the basis of the process of signification. The meaning is what is expressed by the proposition, without ever being said by the proposition. Sense as a surface effect is not a trace of something absent, nor of depth, but is the effect of non-sense, which comes from the paradoxical instance, always displaced, from the decentralized ego, dissolved in a thousand surface events. 

Rugi G- (2024), “La dimensione paradossale del pensiero. (Parte Seconda). Il senso dell’analisi. La vertigine della superficie”, Koinos. Gruppo e Funzione Analitica, XII, n.2:143-156.