The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Today : 1999 : Éric Laurent
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1999
First published in Cahier No 13, ACF/VLB, Rennes, Autumn 1999
Translated by Richard Klein
Published
Psychoanalytical Notebooks : Issue 8 : 2002 : p91-106
On the London Society of the New Lacanian School’s web-site here
Available here
Headings
The symptom and the opposition between love and symptom
The politics of guilt and love of the truth
Love and feminine identification
References to Sigmund Freud or Jacques Lacan
P91 : Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan : See here
P91: Conference Report, SIR : Inaugural meeting of SFP, Paris : 8th July 1953 : Jacques Lacan : See here
P93 : Seminar XVII: Psychoanalysis upside down/The reverse side of psychoanalysis: 1969-1970 : from 26th November 1969: Jacques Lacan : See here
P94 : ‘Wo es war, soll ich werden’ : Final paragraph of Lecture XXXI: Dissection of the personality: 1932 : Sigmund Freud
P95 : Chapter VII of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego : 1921 : Sigmund Freud : SEXVIII p69-143
P96 : Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria (‘Dora’): 1901 : Sigmund Freud
P97 : Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar : 20th November 1963: Jacques Lacan : See here
P97 : See Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts: 1963-1964 : beginning 15th January 1964 : Jacques Lacan or here
Quote: “If you will allow me to add some irony in the matter, the unconscious is on the side strictly opposite to love which is, as everyone knows, always unique, for which the formula one lost, ten more found again achieves its most fitting application”
P25 of Alan Sheridan’s translation : Seminar XI 22nd January 1964 : Now, as soon as it is presented, this discovery becomes a rediscovery and, furthermore, it is always ready to again, thus establishing the dimension of loss.
To resort to a metaphor, drawn from mythology, we have, in Eurydice twice lost, the most potent image we can find of the relation between Orpheus the analyst and the unconscious. In this respect, if you will allow me to add a touch of irony, the unconscious finds itself, strictly speaking, on the opposite side to love, which, as everyone knows, is always unique; the expression ‘one lost, ten to be found again’ finds its best application here.
Discontinuity, then, is the essential form in which the unconscious first appears to us as a phenomenon—discontinuity, in which something is manifested as a vacillation. Now, if this discontinuity has this absolute, inaugural character, in the development of Freud’s discovery, must we place it—as was later the tendency with analysts—against the background of a totality?
P98 : The-Names-of-the-Father : See above
P102 : Seminar XVII : see above
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Earl’s Court, London
Other texts
Ethics here
Of the clinic here
Lacanian Transmission here
Some Lacanian History here
From other LW working groups : here
Topology here
By Éric Laurent here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
