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Volume 10, Number 2
July-December 2006

The Expression
Laurence Khan


SUMMARY

Noticing the difficulty that exists in distinguishing the tension of excitement from sensation, the author underlines the role of expression, which is situated at the border between quantitative economy and affective qualification. Facing the irruption of the drive strength that could manifest itself in a almost-brute state, she insists on the role of the delegation also in the form of that specific link which is the affect-representative and of its conformation within the therapy. The perceptive activity, articulated to the esthesic fabrication of the world, is linked to the role of the memory trace which moves the affect both in identification and in the foundation of the Self and the other, and in the constitutions of the instances.