The Freudian Thing or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis : (Vienna) 7th November 1955 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on November 7, 1955
Lecture given Neuro-psychiatric Clinic, Vienna on 7th November 1955.
Pubished in Évolution Psychiatrique XXI, I (1956): p225-52
An expanded version is published in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan. See here for more details.
Alan Sheridan’s translation available here
Please note: it was difficult to scan this text so two scans are included in this download.
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Published in French:
Écrits: Jacques Lacan : Paris, Les Éditions du Seuil: 1966
Many of these texts are published, in French, at École Psychanalyse, Pas Tout Lacan http://ecole-lacanienne.net/bibliolacan/pas-tout-lacan/
Published in English:
Écrits, a selection: London, Tavistock: translated Alan Sheridan : 1977
Further information : Translator’s note, Bibliography Note : 1977 : Alan Sheridan & Classified index of the major concepts, Commentary on the graphs : 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller : from ‘Écrits: a selection’ or here – See notice above
Available p114 to 145 here
Now available in bilingual edition from www.freud2lacan.com/Lacan here
Écrits, Jacques Lacan, The first complete edition in English : translated by Bruce Fink : W.W. Norton & Co : 2002 : p 334 to 363
Subtitles given in ‘The Freudian thing, or the meaning of the return to Freud in Psychoanalysis’
Situation in Time and Place of this Exercise
The Adversary
The Thing Speaks of Itself
Parade
The Thing’s Order
Resistance to the Resisters
Interlude
The Other’s Discourse
Imaginary Passion
Analytic Action
The Locus of Speech
Symbolic Debt
The Training of Analysts to Come
Commentary
A Reader’s Guide to Écrits : 1982 : by John P. Muller & William J. Richardson Information : A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson or here
Chapter 4 : The Freudian Thing) or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis …. p123 : Available here
Reference by Jacques Lacan to this text
Jacques Lacan refers to ‘primal thing’ in Seminar IV : 16th January 1957.
It is from the present point where we are in the analysis that the subject formulates forthe past, organises a primal dramatic situation, in such a way that is nonetheless inscribed in their present speech, in their present powers of symbolisation, and we locate, through the progress of analysis, something like the primal thing.
See Seminar IV : The Object Relation & Freudian Structures 1956-1957 : begins 21st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan or here
This text foreshadows many of his arguments given on 16th January 1957.
References:
p116 : Société Française de Psychanalyse : See Some Lacanian History &
Conference Report, SIR : Inaugural meeting of SFP, Paris : 8th July 1953 : Jacques Lacan or here
p117 & 142 : The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud : Availability here
p117 :From the History of an infantile neurosis (The ‘Wolf Man’): 1914 : Sigmund Freud
p117 : Beyond the Pleasure Principle : 1920g : Sigmund Freud
p127-128 Happiness : This is the aim of current UK Government initiatives. Some of the posts on this :
Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on ‘Today programme’ by Julia Evans on November 14, 2012
The conflict comes when we separate ethics and economic progress and when we equate the latter with happiness: Desmond Tutu and Bettina Gronblom by Julia Evans on April 4, 2012
Registration and Regulation – an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear by Julia Evans on May 19, 2011
Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government by Julia Evans on May 7, 2007
Ordinary Psychosis and Addiction in the Postmodern Era : 1st March 2016 : Thomas Svolos
Quote: ….. is one of extreme pragmatism based on a cost-benefit analysis that apparently excludes moral accounting : The Guardian by Julia Evans on February 14, 2015
Seminar VII : 30th March 1960 : p193 : Comments on εὐδαιμονία : Reading group of 1st February 2014 by Nicholas Stylianou on February 1, 2014
Politics, ethics, regulation and the talking therapies : current positions emerging from Parliamentary debate by Julia Evans on November 20, 2013
‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments. by Julia Evans on December 1, 2012
Notes from Seminar VII : 25th November 1959 : p27 to 34 (Diagram p34 corrected) : Read on 15th November 2012 by Julia Evans on November 15, 2012
P128 & 136 : Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’ : New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis : Sigmund Freud : 1932 (Published 1933) : Lecture XXXI: Dissection of the personality: 1932 : Last paragraph
Other references to this phrase:
Seminar XI : 29th January 1964 : p33 of Alan Sheridan’s translation & Seminar XI : 5th February 1964 : p44 of Alan Sheridan’s translation : Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts: 1963-1964 : beginning 15th January 1964 : Jacques Lacan or here both refer to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’ in the last paragraph of the Freud text.
Notes from p1 – 7 of Seminar VII from the 21-09-12 Reading Group Meeting by Julia Evans on September 15, 2012 or here /Reference to ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’
References to Sigmund Freud within LacanianWorks or here gives an up to date list.
p131 Miss Anna Freud : See Minutes of the meeting of the International Psychoanalytical Association : 30th July 1953 : Dr Heinz Hartmann (IPA President & Chairman of the Meeting) or here &
Texts by Anna Freud here
p132 Heinz Hartmann : Minutes of the meeting of the International Psychoanalytical Association : 30th July 1953 : Dr Heinz Hartmann (IPA President & Chairman of the Meeting) or here &
Letter to Heinz Hartmann : 21st July 1953 : Jacques Lacan or here &
Texts by Heinz Hartmann here
p143 Notes upon a case of Obsessional Neurosis (The ‘Rat Man’) :1909d: Sigmund Freud : Published Standard Edition: Vol 10: p155 or Penguin Freud Library (PFL) : Vol 9 : p31
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Lacanian Transmission here
Some Lacanian history here
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Topology here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
Jacques Lacan in English or here
Translation Working Group here
Use of power here
