Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger Through Lacan.

When we differ on theoretical perspectives in psychotherapy, we regularly do so via appeals to the authority of the traditions we feel affiliated to or trained in, rather than a careful evaluation of the underlying philosophical presuppositions of those traditions. Lacan was at pains to distinguish his reformulation of psychoanalysis from biologically grounded perspectives such as attachment theory and more socially adaptive and normative readings of Freud, associated with the American Ego Psychology of the mid-twentieth century, against which he railed. Whilst it's true that Tombras' foregrounding of Heidegger's deconstruction of the legacy of Cartesian subject-object dualism, picked up and very differently elaborated by Lacan, speaks to this very philosophical divergence, I suspect that only the already-initiated will be alive to this. [Extracted from the article]