How to Combine Capital E and Capital I? Psychoanalysts and Writers in pursuit of double entropy enigma

Abstract

This article argues that the intersection between cybernetic entropy (loss of information) and thermodynamic entropy (loss of energy and disorganization of matter) could be considered a key enigma common both to psychoanalytic theory (since the Freudian 'death instinct') and contemporary literature inasmuch as it has been concerned with repetition as a new dominant of experience. The argument will begin by discussing the cybernetic turn proposed by Jacques Lacan in the Book 2 of his Seminar and will end by presenting the terms in which two contemporary authors -William Burroughs and Juan Carlos Onetti- dealt with the 'double entropy' enigma.