Chapter 3: The Logics of Sexuation. The Psychoanalytic Discourse.
- Christian Fierens
- Oct 1, 2015
- 52 min read
Updated: May 23, 2023
The Letter, Issue 59/60, Summer/Autumn 2015, Pages 1 - 38
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE. A SECOND READING OF LACAN’S L’ÉTOURDIT
Christian Fierens
C. Fierens, Le discours psychanalytique. Une deuxième lecture de L’étourdit de Lacan. Toulouse, Point hors ligne, Erès, 2012. Trans. C. Gallagher 2014.
TABLE OF CONTENTS[1]
Presentation Introduction: The differance
1. THE ROLES OF THE ANALYST The analyst who knows. The dogmatic analyst The analyst who does not know. The sceptical analyst The analyst who tracks stating. The dynamic analyst The analyst who says what there is. The analyst as witness
2. THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE
Without resources With resilience ‘There is no sexual relationship’ or the development of the matheme of the impossible
The undecidable Conclusion
3. THE LOGICS Of SEXUATION... 4
The ‘masculine phallic formulae’ The question of the subject The impasse The ‘feminine phallic formulae’
4. THE STUFF OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE AND ITS CUT
The philosophical discourse and the psychoanalytic discourse: the same stuff The cut-the stitch, the effacing of the psychoanalytic discourse The novelty of the psychoanalytic discourse Saying privileged in the psychoanalytic discourse
5. THE SENSE OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE
The comfort and the impossibility of the psychoanalytic group
The rejected psychoanalyst The directive idea of the psychoanalytic discourse The psychoanalytic discourse as compared to the other discourses
6. THE STRUCTURE OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE, IS INTERPRETATION Between meaning and absence, the flickering of sense Structure The equivocation of interpretation The three kernel-points of equivocation and the psychoanalytic discourse as Borromean
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE PSYCHOANALYTIC DISCOURSE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
CHAPTER 3 THE LOGICS OF SEXUATION
For classical logic, the real is approached in the order of truth: in principle it would be a matter of finding, of producing, of guaranteeing the truth of propositions, namely, the equivalence between what is said and the real to which the said is referred. It is a logic of saids.
The discourse of analysis brings out what is forgotten in the saids, namely, the saying. Freud’s saying re-centres psychoanalysis on the phallus not as the meaning of a pivotal said or of a general statufied symbol, but in the sense of a re-launching saying. If Freud saw in the Oedipus complex the shibboleth of psychoanalysis and if the phallus is what is at stake in the Oedipus complex, it is not to produce saids that are true and applicable to all, men and women, it is in the experience of the re-launching of the saying of the treatment for the analyser and for the analyst.