Jouissance is Surplus Prediction Error

Here, I develop my central argument: jouissance corresponds to surplus affective consciousness, to surplus (prioritized) free energy. I detail how Solms’s neuropsychoanalytic integration of affective neuroscience and the free energy principle can be interpreted through Lacan’s extimate topology of jouissance. I then discuss several implications from this Lacanian neuropsychoanalytic integration: differentiating drive (and jouissance) from instinct (and affect), Ariane Bazan’s work situating the signifier as a motoric element, and articulating predictions as signifiers.