Jacques Lacan – L'étourdit: A Bilingual Presentation of the Second Turn, Second Part: The Discourse of the Analyst
 
Issue 45 (Autumn 2010)  Pages – 1-15
 
1. The psychoanalytic group is impossible (31a-32c) 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 labitent2 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.