De l’entropie au principe de l’énergie libre : métapsychologie de la pulsion de mort et des enveloppes psychiques. Partie 2

Context

This paper proposes an overview of the articulation between psychoanalytic metapsychology and contemporary work in cognitive neurosciences concerning entropy and the free energy principle.

Objective

The objective is to bring these two disciplines into dialogue in order to clarify the fundamental principles of psychoanalytical metapsychology and to better understand the development of the psychic apparatus.

Methods

After having described the theory of envelopes as Markov chains proposed by the neuroscientist Karl Friston, we sum up the theory of psychic envelopes developed by psychoanalysis.

Results

It appears that the psychic apparatus must integrate and bind free energy, at its different levels, by the creation of envelopes and the internalization of early intersubjective relationships.

Interpretations

It is possible to consider different forms of psychopathologies as resulting from defects of this work of regulation and transformation, based on the principles of free energy and entropy.