Psychoanalysis

What leads to Little Hans’ particular exit from the Oedipus complex, the neurotic structure this produces and thus the subject’s place in the symbolic order?

Towards the end of his Seminar La Relation d’objet Lacan describes Little Hans’ exit from the Oedipus Complex: ‘he has never acquired his penis so there can be no question of him losing it. There is no phase of symbolisation of the penis.’ …… It is ‘as substitute for the phallus that Little Hans is installed in existence. …… The paternal function which the child assumes is imaginary. Hans has substituted for the mother and he has children as she does. …. He will become someone who is essentially a poet, a creator in the imaginary world’.1 This account astonished me even though I had already read Lacan’s next Seminar,...

Imago is a word in Latin: image in English, or, to be more precise; form. Lacan’s reading of the term, particularly in his Seminar on Identification (1961-1962) leads him to ask: why have we allowed the imagos of Freud and Lacan to be trivialised? Why have we permitted these ’imperceptible traces’ to serve for our amusement, even our derision? Lacan reminds us that their use is revelatory as a means of understanding structure. This paper aims to examine this issue. Brendan Behan, a Dublin playwright once said, ‘The first item on the agenda of any newly formed group in Ireland, is the split’. At this stage over 40 years since Cormac Gallagher brought the ‘plague of psychoanalysis’ (as Freud called it) to our shores, there have been so many splits and repleating and restitching that very...

Freitag 03/05/2019

Ich möchte in diesem Vortrag, vorwiegend in Bezug auf bestimmte Formen der heutigen weiblichen Erfahrung, das ansprechen, was wir das Reale der Sexualität nennen könnten.

Von diesem Realen sagte Lacan), wie wir wissen, dass " es unmöglich ist, das sexuale Verhältnis zu schreiben". Ich möchte hier sehr bescheiden die strukturellen Feinheiten der femininen Position (die manche Männer mit den Frauen teilen, es handelt sich ja um eine subjektive Position) hinterfragen, sowie die Art und Weise, wie sich diese heutzutage manifestieren, und so dieses Reale vielleicht noch etwas näher einkreisen.

Brendan Behan a Dublin playwright once said “The first item on the agenda of any newly formed group in Ireland, is the split”.
At this stage over 40 years since Cormac Gallagher brought the “plague of psychoanalysis” (as Freud called it) to our shores, there have been so many splits and repleating and restitching that very soon none of us will have anything to wear.
And, perhaps that may not be so bad after all, because the prêt a porter of the psychoanalyst is much easier to don than the especially fabricated – the “be-spoke” tailor made, as they say in all the best circles. This prêt a’porter of the phantasy seems to be spreading its wings. As Lacan remarks “Is it not true that in our era psychoanalysis is everywhere and psychoanalysts...