Psychoanalysis

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...

“Freud, the first to consent not to look away nor to investigate elsewhere, the first not to attempt to hide it in psychiatric theory that more or less harmonised with the rest of medical knowledge; the first to follow its consequences with absolute rigour.” So says Michel Foucault in “Madness and Civilisation”.[1] The aim of this paper is to examine and remind ourselves of the way in which the hysteric was essential to Freud’s founding of the technique of psychoanalysis. And to outline Freud’s contention, so succinctly put in ‘A Question of Lay Analysis’ that ‘one cannot run away from oneself’[2].