Note to the Italians : April 1973 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on April 1, 1973
“…does not for all that imply that just anyone is an analyst.
For what it enunciates it is that it is the analyst that is at stake, it presupposes that there is one of them.
To authorise oneself is not to auto-ri(tual)ise oneself.
For I have posed on the other hand that the analyst depends on the not-all.
Not every one (pas-tout être) who speaks can authorise himself to act as an analyst. The proof is that an analysis is necessary for it, even though it is not sufficient.
The analyst alone, in other words not just anyone, is authorised only by himself. “ from Cormac Gallagher’s translation, www.LacaninIreland.com
This letter was addressed by Lacan in April of 1973 to three Italian psychoanalysts: Muriel Drazien, Armando Verdiglione, and Giacomo Contri, who wanted to create a group linked to the E.F.P. (from www.Freud2Lacan.com)
It was first published in Italian in Spirale (No. 9, 1981)
This text affirms the importance of ‘la passe’ to any Lacanian school and briefly describes other tenets crucial to the formation of an analyst and the importance of ‘les passeurs’ in the procedure of ‘la passe’. Although this is usually translated as the Italian Note, it is more accurate to state ‘Note to the Italians’
Background
From Cormac Gallagher, www.lacaninireland.com, available here
This is one of three texts where Jacques Lacan deals with the structure of a psychoanalytic organisation:
- 1964: a) The founding act b) Adjunct to the founding act c) Preamble to the founding act- See ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacanor here
- 1967: The proposal on the analyst of the School: See ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacanor here
- 1973: The Italian note
Confusion over publication date :
There are two dates : April 1973 and 1974. This was probably put in place when published in French in 1982. I suspect that April 1973 is correct so this date is given.
Published in French :
– La lettre mensuelle de l’École de la cause freudienne 9 (1982) – dated 1974
– Note italienne : p5 of Ornicar? 25, 1982, Seuil – dated April 1973
– École lacanienne de psychanalyse / pas tout Lacan : the link, January 1974, does not display this text.
– at www.psicoanalisis.org : available here : dated 1973
– at Patrick Valas’s website, available here : dated April 1974
– p307-311 of Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan : See here : dated as 1973
Translated in English
– Translated by Jack W. Stone – dated April 1974
Published University of Missouri
Available here : Or here See www.Freud2Lacan.com as given below.
NOTICE
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– Translated by Cormac Gallagher as ‘Letter to three Italian Lacanians: Contri, Drazien and Verdiglione’.
published at www.lacaninireland.com
and available here
– In French, together with Jack W. Stone’s, Cormac Gallagher’s & Susan Schwartz’s translation : here – see following link.
OR see Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, available here
– Note to the Italian Group, transl. by Russell Grigg in Analysis No.7, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1997.
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Earl’s Court, London
Other texts
Use of power here
Some Lacanian History : here
Topology : here
Lacanian Transmission : here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud : here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here
Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan or here
NOTICE
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