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Workshop 2014: Interrogating Freud & Lacan
Cost for the 7 sessions £105 (waged) £70 (unwaged) full fee payable on registration Location Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn The purpose of this working group is to interrogate Freudian and Lacanian texts to discover the building blocks which describe relationships in progress. In particular, the way in which diagrams are used to show how relationships and relations between symbols operate. Jacques Lacan, for example, puts topology and mathemes in place.
This article provides a theoretical clarification of "the symbolic" in Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and argues for further conceptual research into its implications for psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. What is striking about the Kleinian and Lacanian models is that they are diametrically opposed in the way they conceptualize the subject's development of the capacity to form symbols: while for Klein the experience of concrete objects exists from the very beginning of life and the symbol is a product of "object-relating", for Lacan, on the contrary, the experience of objects is an effect of the symbolic order. In Klein we start with the object/object-relation and work through different stages of symbolism eventually ending up with language, so that linguistic thought develops from the experience of the primal object. In Lacan, on the other hand, integration into the world of language produces lack/absence, which, in turn, is the necessary condition for conceptualizing objects: the experience of objects develops as an effect of language/symbolization. The article begins with an account of Freud's two main theories of the symbolic -one based on images, the other on language or "wordpresentations" -and traces the Klein-Lacan divergence to this theoretical duality. It then argues that a Klein-Lacan dialogue on the symbolic can open new directions for theoretical development by examining how different theories can accurately correspond to empirical observations of psychic functioning, as well as effective clinical interventions.
Freudian constructions and Lacanian reductions
The Law of the Mother, 2018
As an introduction to Lacan's Borromean concepts, we can take his seminar "RSI", which makes them into a sort of system. I have chosen to approach these ideas from the opposition between the Freud of the construction of the paternal myth, and the Lacan of the reduction of the symptom, deconstructing the edifice upon which the symptom is based, relying to a large extent on the symbolic and the Name-of-the-Father.
Lacan's Formation of the Subject and Freud's Development of the Ego.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the Austrian neurologist who founded Psychoanalysis, took his experience and theories through many analyses and developments, before coming to name anything. He took great care to make his concepts and theories intelligible, while Lacan was more interested in what cannot be limited to ordinary definitions. He was interested in what happens between words and lines, with the margins of the psyche, with an unconscious La Linguisterie that is the art andscience of the word that fails. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is considered the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacan deliberately wrote in a Prose style, that would resist any neat summary of his concepts and avoid being over systematised. His style of writing and analysis is full of play, puns, jokes, metaphors, irony and contradictions that resemble the psychoanalytic ‘free association’ of images words ideas and meanings that change with context and reveal unconscious desires. For this essay, I am using ordinary psychoanalytic terminology and theory. In a Freudian understanding, this self-restriction to representing standard psychoanalytic theory, is achieved through the repressive function of my superego. In a Lacanian understanding, this writing function is achieved in the name of the Symbolic Father of Freud’s Totem and Taboo. If like Lacan however, the playful son, I allowed myself creativity and unconscious fluidity in writing about Freud and Lacan, this would be a very different kind of essay. My experience of studying, reading and interpreting Lacan however, was a fluid and erotic experience, so perhaps his theory of the intimacy of language and desire is correct. “Will our action go so far, then, as to repress the very truth that it bears in its exercise?” (1)
Las Identificaciones Freudianas en La Obra De Lacan
2004
Como tarea preparatoria para el proyecto UBACyT P091 (2004-07) "La estructura del nudo borromeo en la caracterizacion de la histeria en el ultimo periodo de la obra de J.Lacan (1974-1981)", el trabajo presenta de manera resumida una revision de la construccion del concepto de identificacion en la obra de Freud y de Lacan y, en especial, la delimitacion de las multiples variedades que distinguen uno y otro. Resumen en Ingles As a preliminary work for UBACyT P091 (2004-2007) "Borromean knot structure in the characterization of hysteria in the last period of J. Lacans work (1974-1981)", this paper briefly presents a review of the construction of identification concept in Freud and Lacan's work and, in particular, the delimitation of the multiple varieties that each of one distinguishes. Key Word: identification Palabras Clave identificacion
Lacan for Jungians: a response to S. Gullatz
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2010
This brief introduction to Lacan 1 is meant to help orient Jungian analysts to some of the fundamental insights and vocabulary of Lacan's view of psychic dynamics. 2 We can begin by looking at three of Lacan's central ideas: the role of language, the function of desire and the structure of the subject. All of these are embedded in Lacan's three registers of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. It is very important, as it is reading Jung, that one does not assume very much about the signifier's connection with the signified in understanding these terms. After this the parallels with Jung's concepts can be explored. Lacan claimed to stage 'a return to Freud' by analysing the linguistic nature of psychological symptomology. This claim can be read as more of a battle cry since Lacan was concerned that the Freudian community was moving away from a conception of the unconscious as structured, full of motive, and designated by radical alterity. At the same time, he re-read Freud through a Saussurian linguistic lens in a way that is both compelling and hardly recognizable as Freudian. 3 The concept of a structured, motivated and completely other unconscious should be familiar to Jungians, whereas the emphasis on linguistic metaphors will likely be foreign at first.