Letter from the President
The One and the Multiple “versus” Diversity Christiane Alberti
The aggiornamento driven by the WAP has placed at the heart of the schools’ institutional reflection the dialectic between the One and the multiple. It presents itself differently depending on the experience and history of each school. How can the relation to the One of the Lacanian Orientation be conceived when there is no geographical centre towards which to converge? How can we treat localist temptations of the “them and us” type? How can we situate the involvement of non-members in the school, particularly that of the youngest?
The experience of the NEL shows that this makes it all the more necessary that the ONE of the School materialises, starting from a power of the School’s call, in different locations. As J.-A. Miller has explained, the School can thus become embodied at different moments, sometimes in one town, sometimes in another.
This reflection comes at a time when the signifier of diversity is being imposed everywhere, globally. It is interesting to return to the American sources of this notion, with its ideological, ethical and political implications…
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