ABSTRACT

Aggressivity manifests itself in an experience that is subjective by its very constitution. It would be useful to return to the phenomenon of psychoanalytic experience. Aggressivity in experience is given to us as intended aggression and as an image of corporal dislocation, and it is in such forms that it shows itself to be efficient. After the repeated failures of classical psychology to account for these mental phenomena, which, using a term whose expressive value is confirmed by all its semantic acceptations, we call images, psychoanalysis made the first successful attempt to operate at the level of the concrete reality that they represent. The springs of aggressivity decide the reasons that motivate the technique of analysis. The notion of aggressivity as a correlative tension of the narcissistic structure in the coming-into-being (devenir) of the subject enables us to understand in a very simply formulated function all sorts of accidents and atypicalities in that coming-into-being.