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Il y a de l’impossible et non pas de l’un-possible

Vicky Koutoulea

Présence sur fond d’absence, nous dit Lacan, pour souligner que « cette place vide n’est pas à combler ». L’espace entre les deux partenaires permet principalement à la parole d’émerger. D’ailleurs, « c’est parce que deux êtres ne peuvent pas s’unir entièrement qu’ils parlent ».

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Duelar

Isolda Arango-Alvarez

This is the moment I define as the face of painful love in transference. What is the turning point of this duelar at the end of an analysis? Even though we know it is contingent and that exits from analysis are singular and unique, I propose that this duelar marks a turning point in transference — that is never reduced to zero but instead shifts and becomes attached to the institution, to the School.

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“To say ‘The ethics of psychoanalysis, today’ supposes the decisive contribution made by Jacques-Alain Miller with his formula of partner-symptom which states clearly and in a way utilisable by psychoanalysts that the bond to the Other is not to be sought along the pathways of love but along those of the drive. It supposes that the solution, to tie together the products of modern narcissism and contemporary solitudes, is to consider an ethics which emphasises that jouissance is not autoerotic — in which case the bond could not but emerge on the side of sublime love — but in the repetition itself of the failed encounter with jouissance the relation to the other as couple is articulated.”

Laurent, E., “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Today”, Psychoanalytical Notebooks, No 8 (2002), p. 94.