The new psychoanalytic metapsychology that Willy Apollon has developed takes seriously that there is a gap between the singular consciousness that each human being has of their own lived experience, and everything that the Other can observe or calculate. The only way for one person to give another person access to what they are thinking or representing is by speaking. Yet within the intimate, social, and professional relationships that structure our lives together there are things that people do not risk speaking about. And beyond what each person represses in their relationships with others there are other experiences that remain inaccessible to the person themself. The traces of these inaccessible experiences mobilize energies that pass to the act in dreams, symptoms, and in acts that subvert relationships and undermine what the ego wants for itself. A psychoanalysis is an opportunity to speak about things that have never been said, to explore what is inscribed in the body, and to take responsibility for a lived experience that acts, in quest of its space, beyond the limits of the organism, the collective, and the Other.

Daniel Wilson works in private practice with autistic children in Montreal. He has a PhD in English Literature from Cornell University. He has published articles on subjects including the Freudian Thing, the role of 19th century energetics in Freud’s metapsychology, Freud’s Lamarckism, masculinity and femininity in Willy Apollon’s metapsychology, and anxiety. He is a member of Gifric, the École freudienne du Québec, and Spiiral.