Schema L
I, the other, the Other
Language, Language and Speech
Communication
Schema L
Writings, Lacan
The scheme shows that the dual relationship of the ego with its projection, the a’ (indifferently, i…
The scheme shows that the dual relationship of the ego with its projection, the a’ (indifferently, its image and that of the other) creates an obstacle to the advent of the subject S in the place of its significant determination, A. The quaternary is fundamental: “a quadripartite structure, from the unconscious, is always required in the construction of a subjective ordering”. Why? Because reestablishing the imaginary relationship in the structure that stages it implies the reduplication of its terms: the small other is exponentiated as the big Other and the annulment of the subject of the significant chain comes to duplicate the ego. Symmetry or reciprocity belongs to the imaginary register, and the position of the Third implies that of the fourth, which receives, according to the levels of analysis, the name of barred subject, or dead.
Division of the Sender
Division of the Receiver
Self
Master of language
Strange
Psychopathology of life
The edges of the Self
Little other
Big Other
In a way, its witness, the one who sees the whole situation. - as the discourse of the unconscious i…
In a way, its witness, the one who sees the whole situation. - as the discourse of the unconscious is a place. It is the elsewhere where the subject is thought of more than he actually thinks. It is where the symbolic determinations of the subject’s history come from. It is the archive of the sayings of all the others who were important to the subject in his childhood and even before he was born.
The Other
The symbolic is where something missing can exist. There is the famous example of the library, taken…
The symbolic is where something missing can exist. There is the famous example of the library, taken by Lacan. In a library, the books are numbered. If someone takes one, there will be an empty space, a lack, because there is a symbolic order. Only in the symbolic order can something that is not there exist and be noticed — that book is missing. The most important thing for the librarian is not the books that one has, but the ones that are missing.
Symbolic
Imaginary
The imaginary is not of the order of mere imagination and this record must be understood as that of …
The imaginary is not of the order of mere imagination and this record must be understood as that of the specular, dual relationship, with its achievements and identifications, but, above all, with the advent of meaning.
Kant: The critique of pure reason
Understanding - Judgment - Reason: Reasoning -
Production of meaning - Both aggressiveness and love
Real
It is what is always found in the same place. - Of the order of non-meaning or radical non-sense. - …
It is what is always found in the same place. - Of the order of non-meaning or radical non-sense. - It is not susceptible to significant metabolism or imaginary transformations, because, in this sense, it resists.
The message leaves the subject and reaches the imaginary other, from the imaginary other I position …
The message leaves the subject and reaches the imaginary other, from the imaginary other I position the self, but it continues in this arc that reaches the big Other. When the message reaches the big Other it undergoes a mutation, there is an inversion, the Other inverts the message and from this inverted place it is sent to the positionof the subject. - Summary of the L scheme is the subject receivingand its own message is inverted from the position of the Other, and this reception translates into the clinical operation called interpretation.
Synthesis
So we are pointing out here that instead of perfect communication, there is a kind of misunderstandi…
So we are pointing out here that instead of perfect communication, there is a kind of misunderstanding. The idea that communication flows perfectly is an imaginary idea, an idea that says the following: this other person I am addressing is a symmetrical mirror of myself, in such a way that I could invert these positions.
Misunderstanding
We understand each other, we are substitutable in relation to each other. I can take the other perso…
We understand each other, we are substitutable in relation to each other. I can take the other person’s point of view, the other person can take my point of view. This whole relationship of understanding that Lacan criticizes is an imaginary relationship, because deep down, the other person is another person. You just put yourself in their place, you just think they are similar to you, but in fact, as we get closer, differences appear, and as we get further away, similarities appear, which are not perceptible up close.
Understanding
Imaginary Axis
Symbolic Axis
When I interpret, I am not understanding my patient, I am not making myself understood, I am not pro…
When I interpret, I am not understanding my patient, I am not making myself understood, I am not producing a meaning that would be the same for me and for him, but I am asserting a connected meaning, an ambiguous meaning, a meaning that this subject cannot recognize, precisely by using this position of the Other, crossing the imaginary axis of resistance and returning this message to the position of the subject.
Interpretation positions this subject and allows him to recognize the unconscious desire that was in his original message.
Interpretation
Day to day
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. - When we are in our daily relationship, we only want…
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. - When we are in our daily relationship, we only want to know the discourse of the little other, we want to make ourselves understood, and this is very important, but the more we invest in this axis the more we at the same time occlude, deny the return of this message from the unconscious and therefore we do not listen to our unconscious, therefore we do not listen to what are the desires that are there articulating themselves in the structure of language.