Christian Fierens – Presentation, Introduction and Chapter 1 – The Roles of the Analyst. The Psycho-analytic Discourse
 
The Letter No57 (Autumn 2014) pages 1-27
 
PRESENTATION
 
Discourse creates a social bond. How express (dire) the social bond specific to psychoanalysis? Must we base ourselves on the persons concerned by analysis?
 
Discourse in general does not have protagonists; it is not determined by the agents that are supposed to precede it.  On the contrary, it is the discourse which gives their place to people who will find in it their consistency by allowing it to resonate in them.  It is the master discourse which determines the master and not the inverse.  It is the hysterical discourse which challenges the hysteric and makes her exist and not the inverse.  It is the academic discourse which knows how to organise the academic and not the inverse.  In the same way, the psychoanalytic discourse is not the discourse held by the analyst, nor is it the discourse held by the analyser.  There is no analyst and no analyser who maintains the psychoanalytic discourse.  It is on the contrary the latter which maintains and sustains them.