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Vibe is Jouir
Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff

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Words occasionally name the style of jouissance particular to a cultural moment.(1) Culture used to imply a certain time and place. Digitalization produces culture everywhere and nowhere, much like the universal gaze it forms and responds to. Today one name of jouir is vibe. Vibe is jouissance organized by gaze. This word has been around for a while, so has the gaze. What is particular to both in our time?

Style captivates bodies

Sean Monahan, a trend forecaster based in Los Angeles, used the term “vibe shift” during the post-lockdown social return: “This sense of timeliness is, ultimately, what I was referring to when I coined the term “vibe shift” in an article on my Substack in June 2021. Why does something feel in or out of style? Why does one cultural object feel representative of an era while another doesn’t? The US supreme court judge Potter Stewart refused to define obscenity, saying in 1964 rather: ‘I know it when I see it.’ Trends are a bit like this. You know them when you see them—you just have to have your pattern recognition goggles on.” (2) Vibes depend on the dynamics of social recognition that imply a modality of the gaze specific to each era. A vibe is hard to capture without the “knowing by seeing” condition. Who watches and who is seen is less relevant than what looks and what is seen. Pattern recognition goggles are algorithms.

Vibe is already post-cliche. Some sample usages to give a contextual lip-gloss:

“We were vibing” (Patient speaking about hanging out with a new date)
“It’s not a vibe” (Patient complained that her girlfriend always uses this phrase)
“I love his vibe” (Anyone said about someone)
“What’s the vibe there?” (Someone asks before going to a party)

Vibes play out most clearly in the function of the imaginary: images organize bodies. When someone is vibing, they are enjoying, they are enjoyed, the body enjoys its own image. When someone asks about the vibe of a particular scene, they are inquiring about the style of jouissance at stake. There are different vibes in different scenes, that are always seens. A vibe depends on the principle that I am seen enjoying/I enjoy by being seen. (3) There is jouissance styled by the gaze. Subsets of jouissance lifestyle profiles are curated by the vibe seen. The enjoyment of the image of the body proffers scenes as social bonds. In 1953, before writing the Rome Report, Lacan introduced his triad in an address called “The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real.”(4) He demonstrated a fundamental principle of the symbolic—speech as an intermediary between two images. Language can intervene in between the body-contra-body, image to image relation. Today, the jouissance of image-contra-image runs the show. The element of speech in between two bodies takes a back seat.

Jouissance lifestyles

Style is lifestyle, jouissancestyle.(5) Brands depend on marketing a lifestyle through social media influencers. Why do millennials have the same taste? Algorithms determine what you see, and what you buy sees you and returns your seeing back to you in an ever-narrowing closed loop. This pertains not just to fashion and consumer products, but also to streaming music, movies, and political ideologies. The infinite regress of like-minded content is an effect of the gaze in our digital networks. The often disparaged social media “echo-chamber” is really a gaze-chamber. (6)
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^{^[1]} Cf. Miller, J.-A., “Lacan Clinician,” The Lacanian Review 12: American Lacan, Paris: New Lacanian School, 2022. I find J.-A. Miller’s remark from 1984 especially pertinent thirty years later: “Indeed, in its most general definition, culture is what accommodates, tames, softens the impossible to bear; it is a set of artifices that allow one to bear the real, to endure it, patiently. I would even say that styles and fashions respond more and more to what is unbearable in an era.” (p. 121).

^{^[2]} Monahan, S., “I predicted the ‘vibe shift’ – and watched it sweep the world. Here’s what it actually means.” The Guardian, 19 December 2022.Available online

^{^[3]} Cf. Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, ed. J.-A. Miller, lesson 19 February 1964, New York/London: Norton, 1981, pp 74-75.

^{^[4]} Lacan, J., “The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real,” On the Names-of-the-Father. Cambridge: Polity, 2013, p. 24.

^{^[5]} Miller, J.-A., “The Economics of Jouissance,” Lacanian Ink 38, 2011, pp.6-64. J.-A. Miller places the two signifiers, jouissance and life together after developing Lacan’s movement from Je suis to Se jouit in this masterclass lesson on jouissance.

^{^[6]} Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book X: Anxiety, ed. J.-A. Miller, Cambridge: Polity, 2014, p. 241.

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Seductions
Neus Carbonell

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Seduction: The gaze, the veil and the nothingness

Seduction entails the capture of a gaze. A gaze that looks at what is supposed to be where there is nothing but nothingness. In seduction then, there is the gaze, what is lacking, and what is veiled. To seduce is to make look, which is not necessarily the same as giving to be seen. Indeed, seduction attracts the gaze towards nothingness, in order to arouse desire and keep it in suspense, at least for a moment. This is why time plays its part in seduction.

The feminine

In seduction, the gaze points to what is alluded to, to what the veil hides. For Lacan, there is a relationship between the veil, the woman and the phallus, as the frescoes in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii elegantly present. In these frescoes, a woman is about to lift the veil that hides the phallus in the Dionysian rites. The whole mystery is that behind or under the veil there is nothing. This is usually the beginning of all initiation rites: the final mystery of the initiation rite is that in the end there is no mystery at all. Thus, under the veil that the woman is about to lift in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, there is nothing but nothingness, the nothingness of castration or death. Lacan refers to this painting as an illustration of woman's relation to the unveiling of the “most hidden signifier.”[1] The woman, being related to lack, makes present a transcendence.

For all these reasons, we can speak of the relation of the feminine to seduction. After all, seduction hovers over the background of non-existence. Indeed, it suggests the non-existence of the feminine, which has no representation. Or, to put it another way, the feminine has no representation other than the very veil that covers an absence of representation.

The scene of seduction

In Freud's sexual theories in children, the seduction scene has a determining role in hysteria. Freud concluded that the seduction scene recounted by hysterics constituted a fantasy, and thus discovered not only infantile sexuality, but also the unconscious origin of human sexuality. Beyond the reality or accuracy of the seduction scene narrated – we know that Freud no longer believed in it wholeheartedly – it is about the traumatic appearance of the question of desire and the jouissance of the Other. Lacan sums it up as follows: "In the hysteric is a sudden seduction, an intrusion or an irruption of the sexual into the subject’s life."[2] Above all, psychoanalysis discovers the relationship between seduction and unconscious desire. Seduction operates to the extent that it resonates in the phantasm of each subject.

Indeed, it is only through the role of desire that the close relationship between hysteria and seduction can be understood. (…)

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[1] Lacan, J., “Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality”, Écrits, trans. B. Fink, New York/London: Norton, 2006, p. 617.

[2] Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book V: Formations of the Unconscious, ed. J.-A. Miller, trans. R. Grigg, Cambridge: Polity, 2017, p. 378.

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CAPSULE 3 – AXES
DANIEL ROY & CAROLINE HEANUE

Coup d'œil sur le Congrès /

Glimpse at the Congress

3 – AXES – Daniel Roy & Caroline Heanue

PRÉSENTATION DES AXES DE TRAVAIL POUR LES SIMULTANÉES CLINIQUES

PRESENTATION OF THE AXES OF WORK FOR THE CLINICAL PARALLEL SESSIONS

(For the correct English wording see below)

Here is the third in a series of short videos or "capsules" towards the

XXII Congress of the NLS which will take place in Dublin on the 11-12 May 2024.

Voici la troisième d'une série de courtes vidéos ou « capsules » en vue du

XXIIe Congrès de la NLS qui aura lieu à Dublin les 11 et 12 mai 2024.

Watch the video and subscribe to our channel! / Regardez la vidéo et abonnez-vous à notre chaîne !

You can also find this video on the Blog / Vous pouvez également trouver cette vidéo sur le blog !

Corrected English Wording for the Axes of Work

(matching the video)

Proposed axes of work:

We propose seven axes of work to orient your clinical cases for the Parallel sessions in English, French or bilingual (simultaneous translation).

1. Instants of seeing: love at first sight – twists of fate – insights

2. Effects of Captivation: the body – the mirror – the fetish

3. The appeal of the gaze: Where am I seen from? By whom? Between the Ideal and the Superego

4. Through the window of fantasy: voyeurism/exhibitionism – porn addiction

5. The stain: the uncanny – shame – indignity

6. “Wandering gazes”: these objects (a) that run everywhere, all alone and always ready to grab you at the first turn…

7. The resources of artifice: veils, modesty, adornments, beauty…

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CAPSULE 3 – AXES
DANIEL ROY & CAROLINE HEANUE

Coup d'œil sur le Congrès /

Glimpse at the Congress

3 – AXES – Daniel Roy & Caroline Heanue

PRÉSENTATION DES AXES DE TRAVAIL POUR LES SIMULTANÉES CLINIQUES

PRESENTATION OF THE AXES OF WORK FOR THE CLINICAL PARALLEL SESSIONS

Here is the third in a series of short videos or "capsules" towards the XXII Congress of the NLS which will take place in Dublin on the 11-12 May 2024.

Voici la troisième d'une série de courtes vidéos ou « capsules » en vue du XXIIe Congrès de la NLS qui aura lieu à Dublin les 11 et 12 mai 2024.

Watch the video and subscribe to our channel! / Regardez la vidéo et abonnez-vous à notre chaîne !

You can also find this video on the Blog / Vous pouvez également trouver cette vidéo sur le blog !

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Pour s'inscrire au Congrès / Cliquer ici

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Call for papers for the NLS CONGRESS 2024

You can now send us your clinical work!

Clinical Parallel Sessions

Will take place on Saturday 11 May 2024, in the rooms of Dublin Castle, from 2 pm to 5 pm. Some will be in English or French without translation. There will also be a bilingual room with simultaneous translation. Each speaker and participant will choose his or her preferred language.

We invite you to propose a contribution in line with the Congress theme: “Clinic of the Gaze”. It is a theme that invites the analyst or practitioner to take a perspective on a case based on 1) the various instance of seeing that are isolated, 2) what makes a stain in the picture for the subject, 3) the screens on which his or her imaginary constructions are projected and/or that stand in the way of the real. Faced with the diffractions of the scopic drive – to see, to be seen, to make oneself seen – we will seek to highlight the position taken by the subject and the intervention of the analyst or practitioner.

Your contribution will be based on a single clinical case, which will be read by the scientific committee (English-speaking or French-speaking respectively).

Contributions can be sent from today, 3 January, to the following address:

Don't wait until the deadline – March 16 – to think about it and write: by then it will be too late!

Please send your texts in the following format:

– 6500 characters including spaces, in Times New Roman font, size 12, with a line spacing of 1.5.

– Before sending, please ensure that your text has been proofread by an English or French-speaking person and strictly formatted according to the above criteria.

– Please include, in the main body of the text: the author's surname, first name, e-mail address and mobile phone number.

– As the subject of the e-mail put: “NLS Congress – Parallel Sessions: NAME FIRST NAME”

Proposed axes of work

We propose seven axes of work to orient your clinical cases for the Parallel sessions in English, French or bilingual (simultaneous translation):

1. Moments of seeing: thunderbolts – blows of fate – insights

2. Captivating effects: the body – the mirror – the fetish

3. The appeal of the gaze: Where am I seen from? By whom? Between the Ideal and the Superego

4. Through the window of fantasy: voyeurism/exhibitionism – porn addiction

5. The stain: the uncanny – shame – unworthiness

6. “Wandering gazes”: these objects (a) that go everywhere, all alone and always ready to grab you at the first turn…

7. The resources of artifice: veils, modesty, finery, beauty…

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for this new NLS year

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Paçi një vit të mbarë ! Gutes Neues Jahr ! Happy New Year! Честита Нова година !

Bonne année ! Godt nytår! Heb een goed jaar! Buon anno! Καλή χρονιά!

שתהיה לך שנה טובה ! Gelukkig nieuwjaar ! Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Duit ! Godt nytt år !

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! Feliz Ano Novo! С Новым годом ! З Новим роком! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

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And already

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The Congress Blog

Send brief contributions: they will be welcome

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Call for papers

For the Clinical Parallel Sessions

Send in a case “that concerns you”

From tomorrow proposed axes of work will give you ideas

or you will find your own!

Do you agree?

Daniel

Eleni

Els

Jean Luc

Marina

Patricia

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