Chapter 5: The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading

C. Fierens, Le discours psychanalytique. Une deuxième lecture de l’étourdit de Lacan. Toulouse, Point hors ligne, Erès, 2012. Trans. C. Gallagher 2014. THE COMFORT AND IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC GROUP Each discourse brings into play a social bond without which it would not be a discourse. What social bond for the psychoanalytic discourse? It would be quite natural to define this social bond as a group, namely as a set of persons (personnes) united around an object, an event or a project that brings them together.…