The Place And Contribution Of Handwriting In Clinical Psychoanalysis

In Freud made use of hieroglyphics (in dream analysis), whilst Lacan drew inspiration from Chinese writing. Having studied the basics of this, Lacan went so far as to say, 'it is perhaps only because I studied Chinese in the past, that I can now call myself Lacanian'. Not only did Lacan find the same ambiguity in Chinese characters as in the signifier - thus re-enforcing the claim that the unconscious is structured like language - but he went further and placed emphasis on the particular dimension specific to the written word.…