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Rather than the icing on the cake, I'd prefer to think in terms of a beverage that I'm about to serve you as an after-dinner liqueur, to wash down the nourishment that this Congress[1] has given you and to whet your appetites with a thought for the next Congress two years from now. So, the expectation is that I shall set the theme for the next Congress and provide an introduction to it. I was just thinking how this has lasted for over thirty years, if we suppose that this series of WAP Congresses took over from what were known as the International Encounters of the Freudian Field that began in 1980. So here we are again, up against the same wall. Mur, the French word for "wall", is the word that has occurred to me, and this is evocative of the neologism that pokes fun at amour: is it to amur[2] that I owe the invariable honour that has been bestowed upon me of setting the tone of the symphony, the symphony that the members of the WAP, whom we are, will have to compose over the next two years before we meet again? Is this the doing of transference, a transference that is brought back to the one to whom fell the onus of founding our association so long ago? But as I've just reminded you, the onus of setting a title, a name, or at least a theme, was something that I had assumed before, at the time of the first International Encounter that was held in Caracas, in Lacan's presence[3]. If there is amur, I would not refer it to the function of the founder, which nothing in our statutes sanctions, I would rather it were referred to the function of a guide, which is a function that I ascribed to myself by giving my Course the title Lacanian Orientation. Amur means above all that the wall of language has to be pierced through anew each time in order to try to grasp more tightly, let's not say the real, but rather what we do in our analytic practice. In the end, though, to orient myself in Lacan's thought has been my concern, and I know that this is something we share. In fact, the World Association of Psychoanalysis has no other cohesion but this. At least, this concern is the fundamental principle behind the gathering that we form, above and beyond the statutes and the insurance systems, and even beyond the ties of friendship and sympathy that have grown between us over the years. Lacan demanded dignity for his thought. He said that it sought to get off the beaten track. And indeed, it is a thought that throws you off track. It is up to us to follow this thought down these unprecedented trails. These trails are often obscure, and all the more so when Lacan pushed deeper into his late teaching. We could have left it there and abandoned it, but we took it upon ourselves to follow this thought, and the last two Congresses bear witness to this… CONTINUE READING
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[Translated from the French by A. R. Price – Text established by Anne-Charlotte Gauthier, Ève Miller-Rose and Guy Briole, not reviewed by the author]
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Crisis
Caroz
[English]
Moments of
Crisis
Gil Caroz
A hypothesis: the list of psychoanalytic groups that make
up the NLS contains a knowledge about “crisis” that it would be interesting to
bring to light. If we consider
crisis as one of the master signifiers of our time, and, as such, a way of
naming the real, the panoply of countries encompassed by our School can teach us
about a series of modes of relation to the real. Between Israel, a country
constantly in crisis, and Switzerland, which seems to avoid all crises, Greece
and Ireland have become emblems of economic crisis in Europe, Great Britain and
Canada are the precursors of the crisis of scientism and technology, Belgium is
the locus of a linguistic crisis, Ukraine is marked by the crises of a state
finding it difficult to establish itself as such, and let’s leave it there.
The signifier “crisis” refers, etymologically, to a
critical moment of upheaval and also to a judgement with respect to a decision
to be taken. From the time of Hippocrates, this signifier has been used in the
medical field to designate a phase of an illness where the symptoms manifest
themselves in an acute form. Later, the term “crisis” found its place, quite
naturally, in the field of psychiatry, and easily infiltrated the dimension of
the Other that we call political, social, economic, historic and moral. Today
this signifier is part of common discourse.
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For the 2014-2015 e-cartels: a “light” formula.
A time for work within the School, the e-cartels offer the
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