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L'étourdit: A Bilingual Presentation of the Second Turn, Second Part: The Discourse of the Analyst

Jacques Lacan

Issue 45 — Autumn 2010

I have the task of clearing the way for the status of a discourse, there where I locate that there is…something of discourse: and I locate it from the social bond to which are submitted the bodies that labitent[2] this discourse. My undertaking appears hopeless (is so by that very fact, this is the result of hopelessness) because it is impossible that psychoanalysts should form a group. Nevertheless, the psychoanalytic discourse (this is me clearing the way) is precisely the one that can establish a social bond cleansed of any group- necessity.…

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