Christian Fierens – What Can Be Done With Anxiety?
 
Issue 64 Spring 2017 (Pages 73-82)
 
There are two different answers to the question ‘What can be done with anxiety’? depending on two different conceptions of psychoanalysis. The first one depends on a more or less Cartesian conception of the affect and is related to Freud’s first theory of anxiety. The second depends on a more or less Spinozist conception of the affect and is related to Freud’s second theory of anxiety and to Lacan’s theory of affects.
 
Keywords: anxiety is not a flaw; affect; Descartes; Spinoza; enjoyment; action