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Communiqué of the President of the NLS

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our colleague Ellie Ragland, member of Lacanian Compass, the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Ellie Ragland was a pioneer of psychoanalysis in the United States, the first to invite and introduce Jacques-Alain Miller to North America. She worked tirelessly to make Lacanian psychoanalysis heard, transmitting it to many generations of students and clinicians. We offer our sincere condolences to her family and colleagues.  
Patricia Bosquin-Caroz, President 

Communiqué de la présidente de la NLS

C'est avec une grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès de notre collègue, Ellie Ragland, membre de Lacanian Compass, de la New Lacanian School et de l'Association Mondiale de Psychanalyse. Ellie Ragland a été une pionnière de la psychanalyse aux Etats-Unis. Elle a été la première à inviter et à faire connaître Jacques-Alain Miller en Amérique du Nord. Elle a travaillé sans relâche pour faire entendre la psychanalyse lacanienne, la transmettant à de nombreuses générations d'étudiants et de cliniciens. Nous présentons nos sincères condoléances à sa famille et à ses collègues. 

Patricia Bosquin-Caroz, présidente 




In Memoriam: Ellie Ragland

Our dear friend and colleague, psychoanalyst, author, professor and editor, Ellie Ragland, passed on January 6, 2025 at 83 years old in Columbia, Missouri. Ragland will remain in a category of her own for the Lacanian orientation in the United States. She was a trailblazer for psychoanalysis in the New World. In 1984, she was the first to bring Jacques-Alain Miller to North America, the same year that she published her first book on Jacques Lacan, one of many to follow. In 1987 she started a newsletter in order to publish Miller in English, a project that would later become the journal (Re-)turn.

 

In an interview from 2022, Ragland recounts her first encounter with Lacan’s work, “I started reading ‘The Rome Discourse,’ and I could not stop. . . I must have spent ten hours just reading it and getting up only to grab a sandwich. That was my introduction to Lacan in 1972.” Ellie Ragland was a member of Lacanian Compass, the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. In the years to come as her legacy in the United States continues to grow, now with a life of its own, we will miss her passion for psychoanalysis, her warmth and her always free spirit. 

 

The funeral service will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, January 20, 2025 at Parker-Millard Funeral Service & Crematory in Columbia, Missouri. Burial will follow at Columbia Cemetery.

 

 

The Council of Lacanian Compass
January 12, 2025




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Love That Does Not Hurt

Markus Zöchmeister

When the partner you are looking for is virtually found on a dating platform, this is initially not a partner of love choice but assigned by the algorithm of the machine, which acts as a guarantee for any replacement. This partner wears the colour of the machine, his loss is replaceable and therefore not a loss that makes a hole in the real.

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L'amour, c'est l'angoisse !

Véronique Voruz

 

Pourquoi l’amour fait-il plus facilement dérailler les femmes ? L’angoisse, Séminaire qui réinvente la psychanalyse à partir du concept de l’objet a, apporte un éclairage alors inédit sur cette question. Lacan y met en série d’étonnantes positions féminines à l’égard du partenaire dit amoureux.

Painful Loves – Keren Ben-Hagai

“We see, then, that the phase of exclusive attachment to the mother, which may be called the pre-Oedipus phase, possesses a far greater importance in women than it can have in men. Many phenomena of female sexual life which were not properly understood before can be fully explained by reference to this phase. Long ago, for instance, we noticed that many women who have chosen their husband on the model of their father, or have put him in their father’s place, nevertheless repeat towards him, in their married life, their bad relations with their mother”.

 

Freud, S., “Female Sexuality” (1931), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXI, London: Hogarth Press, 1961, p 230.
 
Freud spoke of the pre-Oedipal stage, the stage in which the mother serves as the primary love object, as a time that is very difficult to grasp in analysis as if it “had succumbed to an especially inexorable repression.”(1) Unlike phallic jouissance, which is related to the signifier, the object, a baby from the father – can we think of this “inexorable” primary repression together with feminine jouissance?(2) The “other” jouissance that Lacan positioned outside the signifier, is connected with the lack in the Other, with love, and with infinity, and therefore not supported by fantasy. Lacking phallic barriers, the daughter and mother are without limit and lost: it's no coincidence that Freud said we can find there “the germ of later paranoia in women”.(3) Analysis that has on its horizon the delimitation of feminine jouissance can serve as a boundary to the ravage towards the mother, which, according to Freud, manifests in relationships with the husband.

(1) Freud, S., “Female Sexuality” (1931), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXI, London: Hogarth Press, 1961, p 226-227.
(2) Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore (1972-1973). trans. B. Fink. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.
(3) Freud, S. op,cit.
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Dear colleagues,

 

We wish you the very best for 2025. 

We hope to meet many of you at the first major event of our School, Question of the School. As you know, it will take place on 18 January. After that, and together, we will prepare the XXIIIrd NLS Congress which will be held on 17 and 18 May.

See you soon.

Patricia Bosquin-Caroz

and the Executive Committee.

 

 

  

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Many years ago I consulted an analyst, who was visiting our society, for supervision regarding an analysand, whose unconscious position vis a vis his wife was one of dependency and of a maternal/incestuous nature. He was beginning to act out, causing potential harm to himself. I was very encumbered by this case and it was obvious to this analyst, that I was carrying the weight of a rhinoceros on my shoulders, that it had become difficult to hold my position. I wanted to barge in with a solution without properly listening. Towards the end of the session, she said: "This man is a 'motherf..cker'". My sense of relief was immediate and the weight had shifted. This supervision taught me about bearing the real of the clinic and taking responsibility for listening, i.e., the value of true respons(a)bility.


Rik Loose


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Il y a de nombreuses années, j'ai consulté dans l'urgence une analyste pour une supervision à propos d’un analysant qui venait de faire un acting-out. J'étais sérieusement encombré par ce cas. Pour cette  analyste, de passage dans notre société locale pour le travail, il était évident que je portais sur mes épaules le poids d'un rhinocéros. Il m’était difficile, en effet, de tenir une position correcte. J'avais juste envie de trouver une solution, sans bien écouter ce dont il s’agissait. Vers la fin de la séance, elle m’a dit simplement ceci : « Cet homme est un motherf..cker ». Le soulagement a été immédiat : le poids s'est déplacé. Cette séance m'a appris la valeur de la vraie respons(a)bilité.


Rik Loose





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In Supervision

While the School guarantees a link between the analyst and the formation it provides, there is no format to this formation in force. With Lacan, the traditionally compulsory supervision was replaced by a desired supervision. And yet, torn from the standards promoted by a certain tradition, supervision does not raise fewer ethical concerns. It is a must, as Lacan put it, in the interest of protecting the patient from the harmful effects of a blind practice. While Lacan was de-standardising the practice of supervision, he simultaneously established it as essential. Since his Founding Act Lacan articulated work and supervision: "Those who enter the School will commit themselves to fulfilling a task subject to both internal and external supervision [contrôle]” [1].It can be said that the more supervision was deregulated, the more widespread it became: supervision of work, of practice and then of analysis. As J.-A. Miller notes, the pass is "the most demanding method of supervision that psychoanalysis has invented” [2]. 

 

For the Question of the School we have chosen to take a look at the practice of supervision by giving a voice to the supervisees. We are interested in the practice, for which Lacan preferred the term super-audition to super-vision. Whether it is experienced by confirmed analysts or by young trainees, supervision allows the analyst to remain in the position of analysand and thus of a worker. In this sense, supervision guarantees a space where the work transference that is fitting for a School of Psychoanalysis, can be experienced. It enables the long-standing analyst to remain alert in his or her practice, while offering the younger analyst the opportunity to find his or her bearings. It's up to the rhinoceros to open an eye now and then! And also, what can the usages of supervision after the pass teach us? Let's not let the cat out of the bag too soon! To know more about it it is better to participate in the Question of the School.

 

For the Executive Committee, Patricia Bosquin-Caroz, President


[1] Lacan J., "Founding Act", in Television, New York: Norton, 1990, p. 97. 

[2] Miller J.-A., "Qui sont vos psychanalystes?", Paris, ed. Seuil, Champ Freudien collection, 2002, p. 11





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Main References 

Freud, S. (1905), Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, SE, VII: 123-245.

Freud, S. (1908), On the Sexual Theories of Children, SE, IX 205-226.

Freud, S. (1912), On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love, SE, XI: 177-190.

Freud, S. (1918 [1917]), The Taboo of Virginity, SE, Vol. XI: 191-208.

Freud, S. (1914), On Narcissism: An Introduction, SE., Vol. XIV: 67-102.

Freud, S. (1923), The Infantile Genital Organization, SE, XIX: 139-145.  

Freud, S. (1940 [1922]), Medusa’s Head, SE, XVIII: 273-274.

Freud, S. (1925), Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes, SE, XIX: 241-258.

Freud, S.  (1927), Fetishism, SE, XXI: 147-157.

Freud, S. (1932), Libidinal types, SE, XXI: 215-220.

Freud, S. (1932), Female sexuality, SE, XXI: 221-243.


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