“According to Freud, transference marks the adoption of the analyst by the subject – the analyst enters, so to speak, into the family and benefits from the authority which was that of the father or of the mother, the authority of what will be called the primordial Other” [1].
In the era of Uni-dividualism (Un-dividualisme) [2], is the analytic discourse not one of the places where it is still possible for love to allow jouissance to condescend to desire [3]? In this newsletter, you will discover the maneuvers at work in the treatment of the Other of the subject. Thanks to these, it is possible to hear what springs up in the relation to the other.
In an institution, Valérie Lorette’s text delicately reveals to us how it is a question of welcoming both the child’s symptom and what is symptomatic in the family: it is from a position of humility – “knowing how to not know” – that a space is offered where a saying on irreducible transmission can take shape.
With the film Vögter, Valérie Loiseau shows us how that which, of the discomfort, is rejected by the discourse of the current master can return to us. It is then a question of the subject risking trying to put into words that which inhabits each parlêtre in a singular way in an attempt to escape the infernal repetition of non-separation (l‘inséparation).
Camilo Ramirez’s text is a window that opens to welcome the impasse that many parents find themselves in: hyper-connected to the unlimited Other of social networks, their child appears to them completely disconnected from any link to the other. And yet, this type of connection offers certain subjects new inventions to reconfigure an Other in order to make a connection with the other, where the One-all-alone had blocked the entire horizon.
[1] Miller, J.-A, “Au commencement était le transfert”, Ornicar ? 58, Paris, Navarin, 2024, p. 193.
[2] Un-dividualisme is a neologism combining individualism and the One. Lacan J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX : …or worse, ed. J.-A. Miller, trans. A. R. Price, Cambridge, Polity, 2018, back cover, written by J.-A. Miller.
[3] Lacan, J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X: Anxiety, ed. J.-A. Miller, trans. A. R. Price, Cambridge Polity, 2014, p. 179.
Translation: Alasdair Duncan
Proofreading: Laurence Maman
