Dr.

Michael Williams
Berklee College of Music
Philosophy and the Image
Psychical Clinical
Structure

Neurotic

Psychotic

Pervert

Symptom
(Pathology)

Depression
Anxiety
Sexual Frigidity
Sexual Dysfunction
Inhibition
Dissatisfaction
Penis Envy, Castration

Hallucination
Delusion
Mania
Frenzy
Incoherent speech
Sex is boring

Enjoyment
Jouissance
Fetishism, Penis, Penis-Substitutes

Manifest
Representation
(Visible)

Dream
Slip of the Tongue
Joke
Phantom Limb
Inorganic Somatic
Disturbances
Inhibited Sex

Unreason (Foucault)
Discourse Resistant
to Truth
Metaphysics of AntiPresence
What is is What is not
Mania, No Sex

Playful Representation
Inventive Language
Peculiar Word Play
Talent for Language
Fetish-Objects: Fur, Lace, Shoe,
Lingerie, Jockstrap
Sex as Representation
(Pornography)
Exhibitionism/Voyeurism
Scopophilia, Vision, Human Form

Latent Content
(Secret, in the
Unconscious)

Desire
Wish
Truth
Something is
Missing

Yes
Presence
Totality
Fullness
Plenitude
Communism
Nothing is Missing

Mode of Negation
(Object of No)

Repression
Of Desire, Wish, Truth
Either/Or Opposition
Sign
Sexual Timidity

Foreclosure
Of Father, Signified,
Meaning
Being-Deconstruction

Disavowal
Of (Sexual) Difference
Of Opposition
Of Not, No
Becoming-Deconstruction

Return of the
Negated
(Subject of Yes)

Desire
Lack
Castration
Scarcity
Difference
Identity
Identification
Meaning
lettre pour letre
Language, signified
Mind, Consciousness
Sexuality
Politics
Something is
Missing
Capitalism
Master Signifier
(Truth)
Essence of Alienation
in Marxism
Private Property
Sex
Family
Domesticity
Gender Roles

Production
Essence of Man in
Marxism
No Self, No Other
No Meaning
Being
Letre pour lettre
No Language
Body

Enjoyment
Plenitude
Sameness
Capitalism = Communism
AA
A=B
(Non)contradiction
Anti-Meaning
lettre et letre
Weird but Legible Language
Body and Mind (whatever)
Being = Nothingness
Penis = Clitoris
Clitoris = Penis
Male Homosexuality
Ethics, Self-Fashioning
Communism
Public Property

Reason
Truth
Reality-Fantasy
Coherence
Stability
System, Order

Articulation of the Madness of the

System
Representation of the Truth of the
Unreason of the Schizoid
Reasonable Unreason

Threat

Dr. Michael Williams

Berklee College of Music
Philosophy and the Image
Father, Signified,
Capital
Capitalism