{"id":7797,"date":"2025-02-04T21:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pipolcongres.eu\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2025-02-05T22:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:18:39","slug":"the-discontents-in-the-childs-family-biography-alexandre-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2025\/02\/04\/the-discontents-in-the-childs-family-biography-alexandre-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discontents in the Child\u2019s Family Biography – Alexandre Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would like to comment briefly on the citation from Jacques-Alain Miller that Katty Langelez-Stevens has introduced in the PIPOL 12 argument: \u201cthe family is formed by the Name-of-the-Father, by the Mother\u2019s desire, by the objects <\/span>a<\/span><\/em> […] the family is essentially united by a secret, it is united by something unsaid. [\u2026] It is always a secret about jouissance: what do the father and mother enjoy?\u201d\u00a0[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

So the family is the father, the mother and their object <\/span>plus-de-jouir<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This concerns the discontent in the family in the sense of the familial institution, in the political sense that we can give to it. But it also directly concerns what causes discontent in the familial biography of a child, or of an adult who is revisiting his infancy.<\/span><\/p>\n

J.-A. Miller points out that Lacan<\/span> \u2013 in his Seminar <\/span>From an Other to the other<\/span><\/em> \u2013 gives us \u201ca theory of psychoanalytic biography\u201d. \u00a0[2] In any biography, one point radically escapes, and yet it is this very point that is at stake in all the elements of this biography. It is a jouissance situated outside all possible knowledge. I quote Lacan: \u201c[w]hat psychoanalytic experience does is detect somewhere the \u2018point at <\/a>infinity\u2019 [also known in mathematics as the \u2018ideal point\u2019] of everything that is organised in the realm of signifying combinations. This point at infinity is irreducible, insofar as it concerns a certain jouissance [\u2026]. The signifier of jouissance \u2013 a signifier that is excluded [\u2026] is that around which revolve all the biographies to which psychoanalytic literature tends to reduce neurosis.\u201d\u00a0[3]<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems to me that this is also what J.-A. Miller is referring to when he updates the definition of the family today.<\/span><\/p>\n

This excluded signifier is what Lacan would later refer to in his teaching as \u201cthe letter\u201d, which implies a reduction of meaning to an edge of beyond-meaning, an edge of jouissance that cannot be said in its entirety.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this level, it\u2019s not the family anecdotes that count, but the way in which knowledge, jouissance and object <\/span>a<\/span><\/em> are articulated. Lacan points out that all too often an analyst becomes accustomed to the terms: \u201cfather, mother, and a baby brother or sister \u2013 and he considers them to be the earliest terms, even though they only take on meaning and weight owing to the place they occupy in the links between knowledge, jouissance, and a certain object.\u201d\u00a0[4]<\/span><\/p>\n

The psychoanalyst must, of course, take an interest in the analysand\u2019s family history, but on condition that he refrains from understanding too quickly, from believing too quickly in what seems <\/span>a priori<\/span><\/em> traumatic, whereas the real encountered by the subject as a child depends on the way in which a certain jouissance was introduced for him or her there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biography, as the fabric of these anecdotes, merely veils the impossibility of completely articulating jouissance in terms of knowledge. The analyst must be aware of this and not allow himself to be seduced by the so-called \u201coriginal\u201d status of infancy in relation to the family.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[1] Miller, J.-A., \u201cAffaires de<\/span> famille<\/span> dans l’inconscient,\u201d in <\/span>Enfants terribles et parents exasp\u00e9r\u00e9s<\/span><\/em>, ed. <\/span>V. Sommer-Dupont & Y. Vanderveken, Paris, Navarin, 2023, p.\u00a0163.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2] Miller, J.-A., \u201cUne lecture du S\u00e9minaire D\u2019un Autre \u00e0 l\u2019autre,\u201d <\/span>La Cause freudienne<\/span><\/em>, no. 66, May 2007, p.\u00a087. <\/span><\/p>\n

[3] Lacan, J., <\/span>The<\/span><\/em> Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book <\/span>XVI<\/span>, From an Other to the other<\/span><\/em>, ed. J.-A. Miller, trans. B. Fink, Cambridge, Polity, 2024, p.\u00a0287.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4] <\/span>Ibid<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Translation: Janet Haney<\/span><\/p>\n

Proofreading: Raphael Montague<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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