The psychic apparatus is another inside made external to the nervous system

Evidence

The only way to engage the drive through its aim, which is to achieve satisfaction and to maintain excitation at the lowest possible level, is to divert the urgency of the drive from the inside, to deport the inside of the drive itself into another inside than that of the nervous system—another inside that thereby becomes, in a sense, external to the nervous system. This other inside is constituted by the psychic apparatus. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 760

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The drive necessitated a psychic space distinct from and replacing the nervous system — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 706; The nervous-system metaphor made state apparatus an interior ruling an exterior; The body grounds a psychic space lacking all ordinary spatial structure. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The drive necessitated a psychic space distinct from and replacing the nervous system #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 706
• The nervous-system metaphor made state apparatus an interior ruling an exterior #complicates (0.80)
• Freud held psychic life autonomous from cerebral causes #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2055
• The body grounds a psychic space lacking all ordinary spatial structure. #expands (0.75)