20.500.12556/RUL-182182 From turn to affect to return to Freud While philosophy is often depicted as a succession of conceptual turns, psychoanalysis resists such periodization. If psychoanalysis constitutes a turn at all, it is the radical decentering inaugurated by Freud’s discovery of the unconscious, famously condensed in the claim that the ego is not master in its own house. This article argues, following Lacan, that psychoanalysis advances not through new turns but through a return to Freud. Lacan’s return to Freud functions both as a methodological project and a polemical intervention against postwar ego psychology. Central to this project is the concept of extimacy (extimité), introduced by Lacan to name a structure of subjectivity in which the most intimate core of the subject is irreducibly external. Far from an idiosyncratic neologism, extimacy condenses Lacan’s rereading of Freud’s theory of the unconscious as neither inside nor outside the subject but lodged at its core as Other – hence Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is the discourse of the Other.” The article proposes Lacan’s theory of the symbolic and the notion of extimacy as a conceptual response to the dilemmas of contemporary affect theory, preserving Freud’s decentering of the subject while translating it into a structural and linguistic framework. The analysis underscores that any engagement between affect and language must account for the non-representational, symbolic, or structural dimensions of the sign, rather than treating it as a transparent conduit for meaning and intention. As such, the analysis challenges contemporary dominant accounts of affect (Jameson, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Massumi) and unsettles the presumed divide between modernism and postmodernism. psychoanalysis affect theory language poststructuralism psihoanaliza teorija afekta jezik poststrukturalizem true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-04-29 09:59:08 2026-04-29 09:59:09 2026-04-30 04:31:13 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 103-123, 290 št. 11/12 Letn. 63 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 159.964.26:159.942.6 0555-2419 275561475 05_Sumah_p2025_international8.pdf 05_Sumah_p2025_international8.pdf 1 3A04659D1E3E660BAA707444528095AD a2d9ad68f0e39d28aa49999c0d6d09df1f28a6002f31546db0b4343923297038 503aee27-43a1-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233169 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0