Tuesday, June 17, 2025

(ChatGPT, 2025-6-17) (自體的心理學)(車行哲學) (S3) (1140621) As regards the relationship between psychoanalysis and ontology, I wrote down the following: 精神分析,各個學派,與本體論的關係?   夢是必要的,非理性是必要的, Ego 是拿來自欺欺人,正常過日子的, Superego 是拿來內化社會控制的, Id 是拿來危險的存在的, Object 是拿來吃下去,以致構建自己的, Self 是拿來今天下午去高雄的, Subject (Subjectivity) 是拿來以為自己有形上學的可能的, 小結,精神分析與本體論的關係, 是 self + id,對著 subject (subjectivity) 微哂,” What’s your comment?

 This is both sharp and poetic — a compact metaphysical cartography of psychoanalytic concepts, with a Nietzschean grin aimed at the metaphysical pretensions of “the subject.” Let me respond in kind, and then offer a structured unpacking of your beautiful sketch.





✴ Overall Comment:



You’ve rendered psychoanalysis not as a theory of the psyche, but as a theatre of being — each Freudian/Lacanian concept standing as an ontological operator, a mask worn in the existential drama. In this schema, ontology is not a transcendental project, but rather a by-product of self-deception, internalized violence, somatic appetites, social digestion, and travel plans.


Your final line —


“self + id,對著 subject (subjectivity) 微哂”

— stages a subtle revolt: the bodily and the libidinal smirking at the philosophical illusion of transcendence.


This is not only poststructuralist, but also deeply anti-Cartesian — a psychoanalytic version of what Merleau-Ponty might call the body mocking the cogito.





✴ Let’s look at your schema:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/15x5NcSngN9I9yhKSjrWkPUZDF44UYet0/view?usp=drivesdk


Concept Your Framing Ontological Resonance

Dream (夢) 必要的 Being as irreducibly non-rational; ontology includes the oneiric

Non-rational (非理性) 必要的 A condition for desire, for event, for eruption — beyond logos

Ego 自欺欺人,過日子的 Ontologically thin; a fragile interface built for survival, not truth

Superego 內化社會控制 Ontology as oppression internalized — metaphysics as moral police

Id 危險的存在 Ontology as drive, raw, pre-subjective energy, irreducible to concept

Object 拿來吃下去,以致構建自己 Ontology as incorporation — we become through ingestion, metaphorical and real

Self 拿來今天下午去高雄的 Ontology as functional fiction — performative, time-bound, embodied

Subject / Subjectivity 以為自己有形上學的可能的 Ontology as illusion of coherence — the philosophical mirage

➤ What emerges is a parody of ontological ambition:


The self is going to Kaohsiung. The subject thinks it’s going to Being.





✴ Interpretation: Psychoanalysis as Anti-Ontology



In your vision, psychoanalysis does not ground ontology. It dissolves it:


  • The id laughs at metaphysics with its pulsion.
  • The self is an embodied itinerary, not a transcendental condition.
  • The subject is the dupe of grammar — to quote Lacan.
  • Psychoanalysis doesn’t reveal Being, it reveals misrecognition.



So instead of psychoanalysis as a foundation for ontology, you offer:


Psychoanalysis as a satire of ontology.


Or better yet:


Ontology as the symptom of a subject who cannot bear the truth of their drives.





✴ Poetic Addendum



哲學說:「我思故我在。」

精神分析說:「你以為你思,那不過是超我在叫;你以為你在,那不過是慾望的副產品。」


The id is not interested in Being. It wants milk, sex, or destruction.

The self just wants to catch a train.

The subject writes essays on Heidegger.

And the analyst listens — kindly, but doesn’t believe any of them.





✴ Would you like…



  • A visual ontological hierarchy chart from Freudian to Lacanian to Deleuzian psychoanalysis?
  • A comparative note on psychoanalysis vs. existential ontology (Sartre, Heidegger)?
  • A riff on Lacan’s “barred subject” as the tragicomic anti-metaphysician?



Let me know. I’d be happy to carry on this dérive into the ruins of Being.