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Hegel and Lacan on Paranoia
Making use of literary descriptions (Schiller’s The Robbers), Hegel provides logical arguments to show how the self-centered Romantic reformer necessarily must be disappointed even and, in particular, if he succeeds in his reform. Hegel then shows that such a disappointment creates the experience of craziness. The disappointed Romantic reformer then projects the feeling of his own failure and of his own craziness outwards onto the others thus develops a paranoid approach to life. Lacan goes beyond Hegel by demonstrating that paranoia is the result of a failure in human development whereby the future paranoid person is able to idealize and imitate a sibling but is unable to fight that same sibling. Aggression then goes underground and reappears later in the form of paranoia.

Presenter Bio
Wilfried Ver Eecke, PhD, LPC is a philosopher, a professional counselor and a Lacanianpsychoanalyst. He got his PhD in philosophy where Professors A. De Waelhens and A.Vergote introduced him to Freud and Lacan. He presented his doctoral thesis on Freud’s article on negation in 1966. For his doctoral thesis he went to Paris where he followed the lectures of Lacan, Hyppolite, Ricoeur and Aulagnier. He then went to Freiburg where he worked with the linguist Johannes Lohmann. He then went to Harvard where he attended the lectures of the sociologist T. Parsons and the linguist R. Jacobson. In 1967 he was offered a professorship in the philosophy department at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. From 1980-1984 he was the chair of the department. he continues to teach at Georgetown University. After training with the New York Freudian Society, and undergoing a personal psychoanalysis and passing the “Pass” in Paris, he became a Lacanian psychoanalyst and a member of the International School of the Lacanian Field (EPFCL). He cofounded with Devra Simiu, PhD and Macario Giraldo, PhD the Lacanian Forum of Washington, DC which meets biweekly. He has given lectures all over the world and has published more than 50 articles on philosophy of psychoanalysis. His articles were translated into 9 languages.