An Examination of the Function of the Proper Name as Introduced in Crucial Problems for...

This paper explores the occurrence of parapraxis in two different instances, and its relation to the function of the proper name. The first parapraxis is captured in the word Poor(d)J’eLI, presented by Serge Leclaire during the closed sessions of Lacan’s seminar Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis 1964/1965. The second instance is Lacan’s reading of Freud’s The Forgetting of Proper Names. Leclaire argues that the nonsensical utterance Poor(d)J’eLI functions as a proper name and that it is linked to a primordial unconscious phantasy.…