The violence of interpretation : from pictogram to statement / Piera Aulagnier ; translated by Alan Sheridan.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translators Note -- Preface -- Part I. From Pictogram to Statement -- The Activity of Representation, it's Objects and It's Aim -- General General Considerations -- The State of Encounter and the Concept of Violence -- The Primal Process and the Pictogram -- The Postulate of Self-procreation -- The Conditions Necessary for the Representability of the Encounter -- The Borrowing Made From the Senory Model by the Activity of the Primal -- Pictogram and Specularisation -- Pictogram and Erogenous Pleasure -- The Re-production of the Same -- Concerning the Activity of Thinking -- The Concept of the Primal: Conclusions -- The Fantasy Representation of the Primary Process: Thing-presentation and Word-presentation -- Thing-presentation and Body Fantasisation -- Fantasy Representation and the Unconscious -- The Postulate of the Primary and the Economic Principle that Results From it -- The Prototypes of the Secondary -- The Appearance of Word-presentation and the Changes that it Imposes on the Activity of the Primary -- The System of Primary Meanings -- The Pleasure of Hearing -- From Desire to Hear to the Desire to Understand -- Concerning the Perscuting Object -- Signs and the Language of the Primary -- Science and the Discourse of Others -- The Space Where the I Can Come About -- The Organisation of the Space Where the I Must Come About -- The 'Word-bearer' -- The Violence of Anticipation (the spoken shadow) -- The Effect of Repression and its Transmission -- Conjunction and Syntax of A Desire -- The Violence of Interpretation: the Risk of Excess -- The Reduplication of Violence: the Basic Language -- The Deferred Action of the Naming of the Affect -- The Desire of the Father (for a Child, for that Child) -- The Encounter with the Father -- The Narcissistic Contract -- The I and the Conjugation of the Future: Concerning the Identificatory Project and the Splitting of the I Annex: What I Mean by the Concepts of Symbolic and Imaginary -- Part II. The Interpretation of Violence and Primary Delusional Thinking -- Concerning Schizophrenia: the Potential for Psychosis and Primary Delusional Thinking -- Schizophrenia, Paranoia, Primary Delusional Thinking: General Considerations -- The Space in Which Schizophrenia Can Come About -- The Failure of Repression in the Mother's Discourse -- Excessive Violence : The Appropriation by the Mother of the Child's Activity of Thinking -- Forbidden Knowledge and Delusional Theories Concerning Origins -- The Story of Mme B and Primary Delusional Theory Concerning Origins -- The Necessary Factor for Psychotic Potentiality to Remain Such -- The Historical Reality and the Effect of Reduplication -- Concerning Paranoia: Primal Scene and Primary Delusional Thinking -- The Fantasy of the Primal Scene and Infantile Sexual Theories -- The Conditions Necessary for Fantasy Reelaboration -- The 'heard' Scene and its representation in Paranoia -- Accounts Heard -- The 'Family Portrait': Failed Idealisation and the Appeal to the Persecutor -- What the Child 'hears' and the 'delusional Theory Concerning Origins'. The Theses Defended in the Trial to the Persecutor -- M.R's Story -- By Way of Conclusion: the Three Ordeals that Delusional Thinking Re-shapes.