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Talking to Brick Walls - A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital (Hardcover)
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Talking to Brick Walls - A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital (Hardcover)
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"'I've been talking to brick walls,' says Lacan, meaning: 'Neither
to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is
precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me.'
These brick walls are those of the chapel at Sainte-Anne hospital.
Getting back in touch with his younger years as a junior doctor,
Lacan amuses himself, improvises, and lets himself go. The
intention is a polemical one: the best of his pupils, captivated by
the idea that analysis evacuates all prior knowledge, have been
raising the banner of non-knowledge, borrowed from Bataille. No,
says Lacan, psychoanalysis proceeds from a supposed knowledge, that
of the unconscious. One gains access to it by the path of truth
(the analysand ventures to say what comes to mind, frankly and with
no frills) when it comes to an end in jouissance (the analyst
interprets what the analysand says in terms of libido). However,
two further paths bar access to this one: ignorance (to devote
oneself to it with passion is always to consolidate established
knowledge), and power (the passion for might obliterates what is
revealed by parapraxes). Psychoanalysis teaches the virtues of
powerlessness: this, at least, respects the real. A wise lesson for
an era, this era of ours, that has seen bureaucracy, arm in arm
with science, dreaming of changing humankind in its deepest reaches
through propaganda, through direct manipulation of the brain,
through biotechnology, and even through social engineering.
Admittedly things were no better before, but tomorrow they could be
far worse." Jacques-Alain Miller
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