What do We Suffer from? The Phenomenology of Affect in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
What do We Suffer from? The Phenomenology of Affect in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Summary/Abstract: This paper gives an account on the problem of suffering using two complementary approaches: the phenomenological and the psychoanalytical one. Considering anguish as suffering, it emphasises on the fact that both methodological approaches are aiming the same thing, namely the experience of the sublime as a way to give suffering another meaning. Based on the difference between affect and passion, the other meaning the suffering can get is the one of openness to the transcendence of otherness

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