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THE SPEAKING BODY
Xth Congress of the WAP,
Rio de Janeiro 2016
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in its manifestation as
parole
, in his ‘that which speaks.’ This schematic shows
the lesson of what Lacan had at one time considered as his confusion, which
distinguishes the place of
parole
and the drive, here the Other and the
id
.”
p. 6
“Lacan pointed it out in black and white: the subject–supposed–to–know is not
real. Thus it is not equivalent to
savoir
in the real. Lacan always insisted on this.
The motivation for psychoanalysis is the supposed transferability of
savoir
. This
does not at all assure that there is
savoir
in the real. Thus the status he gave to
the unconscious as being functionally a hypothesis, or even an extrapolation.”
p. 18
“It is to make the distinction between the real, properly stated, and meaning
that we find something like
lalangue
. How did Lacan invent
lalangue
,
distinguished from language? He raised his concept of language and structure a
notch to the level of the futility of meaning. He said: “In the end, this language
with its structure is a construction, a lucubration of knowledge which is
established above the real.”
p. 25
Countertransference and Intersubjectivity
(2002). Trans.: B. P. Fulks
[LI 22, 2003]
“Because he makes transference essentially a blockage of the dialectic, he
formulates precisely: “Transference is nothing of the real in the subject.” (…) In
the proposition of the pass in 1967, the same term return[s] concerning the
sujet
supposé savoir.
‘The
sujet supposé savoir
is not real’.”
p. 51
Religion, Psychoanalysis
(2003). Trans.: B. P. Fulks [LI 23, 2004]
“We see a marvelous effort, a new youthful vigor of religion in its effort to flood
the real with meaning. Psychoanalysis is not a narcotic. Nor is it good sense. It
has to accommodate the real, the new real, the real which is the production of
the discourse of science, which has nothing to do with nature. If I dared give it
this title, parodying Heidegger, I would say that the analyst makes himself the
shepherd of the real.”
p. 8
“Structure for Lacan is what allows for doing censoring and prohibition. And
more precisely, in psychoanalysis, structure is what replaces the prohibition
through the impossible. That is Lacan’s operation on Freud. This is the meaning
of the return to Freud, namely the reprise of the Freudian project turned
upside down. This reprise consists in making two of the unconscious and
psychoanalysis. There is the unconscious and there is psychoanalysis. (…) The
unconscious is not psychoanalysis. Lacan said it:
the unconscious is the political
.
The unconscious is the presupposed master–signifier.”
p. 12
Introduction to Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on Anxiety I
(2004).
Trans.: B. P. Fulks [LI 26, 2005]
“Lacan tries to animate the bodies of jouissance which are not signifiers with the
organs. He illustrates this throughout in a summary fashion as a piece of body–
he alludes to the ‘pound of flesh’ that Shakespeare mentions in his play. In fact
it’s a matter of bits of the real which are found for the first time illustrated in an
imaginary fashion, in a material fashion, which will only later find their status of
logical consistency.”
p. 39
“Of course, anxiety is what does not deceive, but what does not deceive is what
does not become signifier, what does not partake of
Aufhebung
. It is the real
remainder. This real remainder is jouissance, in as much as it does not let itself
be captured by the signifier, the irreducible jouissance of the pleasure principle,
and, it is anxiety, in as much as it is the affect of displeasure which connotes the
non–signifiable. Lacan begins his seminar with the formula: “anxiety is the sign
of the desire of the Other,” but it will be surmounted by another formula in
Chapter XII, “anxiety is the signal of the real.” The essential function of anxiety
is not its liaison to desire, but its liaison to the real.
p. 63-64
Introduction to Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on Anxiety II
(2004). Trans.: B. P. Fulks [LI 27, 2006]
“The concept of the unconscious, as it is presented at first in
The Four
Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
, is constructed to conform to the
structure of the orifice as it is demonstrated in the fourth part. This is why,
throughout
Seminar XI
, for the best reasons in the world, Lacan states that the
drive is organized according to gaps homologous to that of the unconscious,
precisely because he constructed his concept of the unconscious in the fourth
part of the Seminar on
Anxiety
.”
p. 36
Detached Pieces
(2005). Trans.: B. P. Fulks
[LI 28, 2006]
“
It speaks
is on occasion so powerful, however, that it obscures that the reading
aloud of
what is written
(…) the passage from writing through the voice (…)
has historically been a condition of readability of the writing. Writing has to be
spoken (
parlé
) in order to become speaking (
parlant
). This is true of writing as
inscription of speech, as notation of what is said, its reception, its representation.
Jacques – Alain Miller