The drive necessitated a psychic space distinct from and replacing the nervous system

Evidence

Freud will eventually identify this internal pressure with the drive, whose exercise, regulation, and channeling demands a specific space that, in a sense, obviates the nervous system and diverts a share of its excess energy. β€” Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 706

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The psychic apparatus is another inside made external to the nervous system β€” Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 760

Broader Connections