NLS Congress – ORIENTATION 1

ORIENTATION – 1

 
 
 

 

 

 
 

 
 
 

“It’s not sure that ordinary psychosis is an objective category.” “It’s more of an epistemic category.” “…ordinary psychosis, it means it’s a psychosis” And if it is a psychosis, then “you must go further than that and look for what it is in the classical psychoanalytic and psychiatric clinic. If you don’t do that – and this is the danger of the concept of ordinary psychosis – it’s what we call in French an ‘asile de l’ignorance’, it’s a refuge for not knowing.” “[the term] Ordinary psychosis must not be a permission to ignore the clinic. It’s an invitation to go further than this term.”
 
“The category of ordinary psychosis stems from practice (…) If you don’t recognise (the well defined elements of) a neurosis, if you don’t have evident signs of psychosis, look for the invisible signs, look for the small clues.”
 


Jacques-Alain Miller, Ordinary Psychosis Revisited, Psychoanalytical Notebooks 26, 2013
 
Extract by Yves Vanderveken
 
 
 

 

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On June 21, 1964 Jacques Lacan founded his School of Psychoanalysis with the aim of assuring the formation of psychoanalysts, the transmission of psychoanalysis, and the re-conquering of the Freudian Field. The New Lacanian School (NLS), created in 2003 by Jacques-Alain Miller, is one of seven Schools founded within the framework of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). The NLS is a member of the EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis (EFP) that regroups the four European Schools of psychoanalysis oriented by Freud and Lacan’s teachings.