To Move or Not to Move

Christian Fierens
4 days ago
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Updated: 13 hours ago

TO MOVE OR NOT TO MOVE

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This article focuses on L’étourdit - Lacan’s ‘last great écrit’ as it has been described by Cormac Gallagher - where Lacan addressed the role of the cartels in the formation of analysts.

Cartel, An Invention

For Lacan, the basis of a psychoanalytical institution cannot be the didactic masters, but newcomers who are not disciples but workers participating in a cartel and producing a text.

Come Out From Behind the Couch(s)

This paper poses questions and possible directions about the future of psychoanalysis in twenty-first century Ireland.