From a preliminary question to all possible treatment
From a preliminary question to any possible treatment of Psychosis…
From a preliminary question to any possible treatment of Psychosis
The state of the subject S (neurosis or psychosis) depends on what unfolds in the Other A. What unfo…
The state of the subject S (neurosis or psychosis) depends on what unfolds in the Other A. What unfolds in him is articulated as a discourse (the unconscious is the discourse of the Other), of which Freud initially sought to define the syntax relative to the fragments that reach us in privileged moments, dreams, lapses, jokes.
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In this discourse, how would the subject be implicated if he were not an integral part of it? He is,…
In this discourse, how would the subject be implicated if he were not an integral part of it? He is, in effect, as he is pulled towards the four corners of the scheme, that is, S, his ineffable and stupid existence, a, his objects, a’, his ego, that is, what is reflected in his form in his objects, and A, the place from which the question of his existence can be formulated.
A truth of experience, for analysis, is that the question of its existence is posed to the subject, …
A truth of experience, for analysis, is that the question of its existence is posed to the subject, not under the guise of the anguish that it arouses at the level of the ego, and which is only one element of its procession, but as an articulated question: “What am I in this?”, concerning its sex and its contingency in being, that is, whether it is a man or a woman, on the one hand, and on the other, the fact that it might not be, both of which combine its mystery and link it to the symbols of procreation and death. That the question of its existence floods the subject, supports it, invades it or even tears it apart completely, is what the analyst is witness to in the tensions, suspensions and fantasies that he encounters; but it remains to be said that it is in the form of elements of the particular discourse that this question is articulated in the Other. Because these phenomena are ordered in the figures of this discourse, they have the fixity of symptoms, which are legible and resolve themselves when deciphered.
At the level of questioning, not of the subject’s place in the world, but of his existence as a subj…
At the level of questioning, not of the subject’s place in the world, but of his existence as a subject, a questioning that, from there, will extend to his intra-worldly relationship with objects and to the existence of the world, insofar as it can also be questioned beyond its order.
Immanent in these beings, whose capture by his inclusion in Schreber’s being threatens their integri…
Immanent in these beings, whose capture by his inclusion in Schreber’s being threatens their integrity, God does not fail to have the intuitive support of a hyperspace, where Schreber sees the signifying transmissions themselves conducting themselves along threads that materialize the parabolic path by which they enter his skull, through the occipital.
With this we will finally end up being amazed at the fact that the subject tormented by these myster…
With this we will finally end up being amazed at the fact that the subject tormented by these mysteries does not hesitate, however Created he may be, to oppose with his words the snares of a dismaying stupidity of his Lord, nor to remain in opposition and against the destruction that he believes Him capable of employing in relation to him and in relation to anyone, through a right founded in the name of the Order of the World (Weltordnung), a right that, by being on his side, motivates the singular example of the victory of a creature to whom a chain of disordersmade to fall under the blow of the “perfidy” of its creator.
After all, when will you feel at ease, when you are in your own home?…
After all, when will you feel at ease, when you are in your own home?
The big Other has these impertinences
So it really seems to us that, if the Created I assumes there the place in P left vacant by the Law,…
So it really seems to us that, if the Created I assumes there the place in P left vacant by the Law, the place of the Creator is designated by this liegen lassen [leaving abandoned], this fundamental abandonment in which the absence that allowed the construction of the M of the Mother in the primordial symbolization seems to be laid bare by the foreclosure of the Father.
From one to the other, a line that would culminate in the Creatures of speech, occupying the place of the son refused to the subject’s hopes (see below, Postscript), would thus be conceivable as bypassing the hole dug in the field of the signifier by the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father.
It is around this hole in which the subject lacks the support of the signifying chain, and which doe…
It is around this hole in which the subject lacks the support of the signifying chain, and which does not need, as we can see, to be ineffable to be panic, that the entire struggle in which the subject reconstructs himself takes place. He led this struggle in his honor, and the vaginas of heaven (another meaning of the word Vorhof e, see above), the miraculous young women who surrounded the edges of the hole with their court, made their gloss with their warbles of admiration torn from their harpy throats: “Ver j l uchter Kerl! Naughty little fellow!” In other times, a smartass. Unfortunately, by antiphrasis.
As we can see by observing that it is not because he is foreclosed from the penis, but because he ha…
As we can see by observing that it is not because he is foreclosed from the penis, but because he has to be the phallus, that the patient will be destined to become a woman. Undoubtedly, the unconscious’s divination warns the subject, from a very early age, that, in the impossibility of being the phallus that his mother lacks, he is left with the solution of being the woman that men lack.
This is precisely the meaning of the fantasy - the relation of which was much emphasized in his writing and which we cited above - of the incubation period of his second illness, that is, the idea that “it would be beautiful to be a woman at the time of copulation”. This commonplace of Schreber’s literature is fixed here in its place.
In any case, we see our subject giving himself over to an erotic activity that he emphasizes is stri…
In any case, we see our subject giving himself over to an erotic activity that he emphasizes is strictly reserved for solitude, but whose satisfactions he confesses. Namely, those given to him by his image in the mirror, when, dressed in the trinkets of feminine ornamentation, he has nothing, he says, on the upper part of his body.
We believe that this is appropriate to link to the development, alleged as endosomatic perception, o…
We believe that this is appropriate to link to the development, alleged as endosomatic perception, of the so-called nerves of feminine voluptuousness in their own integument, namely in the zones where they are supposed to be erogenous in women.
One observation - that by constantly occupying oneself with the contemplation of the image of the woman, never detaching one’s thoughts from the support of something feminine, divine voluptuousness is even more satisfied - makes us turn to the other aspect of libidinal fantasies. This links the feminization of the subject to the coordinate of divine copulation.
Here, once again, we can place under the sign of the creature the decisive point from which theThe l…
Here, once again, we can place under the sign of the creature the decisive point from which theThe line escapes in its two ramifications, that of narcissistic enjoyment and that of ideal identification. But in the sense that its image is the bait of the imaginary capture in which both are rooted. And, in this case too, the line revolves around a hole, precisely the one in which the “murder of souls” installed death. Could this other abyss have been formed by the simple effect, in the imaginary, of the vain appeal made in the symbolic to the paternal metaphor? Or should we conceive it as produced in a second degree by the elision of the phallus, which the subject would reduce, in order to resolve it, to the deadly gap of the mirror stage? Surely, the link - this time genetic - of this stage with the symbolization of the Mother as primordial cannot fail to be evoked, to motivate this solution.
We merely point out here, in the double curve of the hyperbola that he draws, except for the sliding…
We merely point out here, in the double curve of the hyperbola that he draws, except for the sliding of these two curves along one of the straight lines of its asymptote, the bond made sensible, in the double asymptote that unites the delirious ego to the divine other, of its imaginary divergence in space and time with the ideal convergence of its conjunction.
The entire thickness of the real creature, on the contrary, interposes itself for the subject betwee…
The entire thickness of the real creature, on the contrary, interposes itself for the subject between the narcissistic enjoyment of its image and the alienation of speech in which the Ideal of the ego has taken the place of the Other.
This diagram demonstrates that the terminal state of psychosis does not represent the petrified chaos to which the consequences of an earthquake lead, but rather, this evidence of lines of efficiency that makes one speak, when it is a problem with an elegant solution.
Gathered together in the form of this scheme, the relationships through which the inductive effects …
Gathered together in the form of this scheme, the relationships through which the inductive effects of the signifier, falling back on the imaginary, determine this disorder of the subject that the clinic designates under the features of the twilight of the world, requiring, in order to respond to it, new effects of the signifier, stand out. We showed in our seminar that the symbolic succession of the previous kingdoms and then of the later kingdoms of God, the lower and the higher, Ahriman and Ormuzd, as well as the changes in their “policy” (a term from the fundamental language) in relation to the subject, provide precisely these responses to the different stages of the imaginary dissolution, which the memories of the patient and the medical certificates, moreover, sufficiently connote, by reestablishing an order of the subject there.
As for the question we are raising here about the alienating incidence of the signifier, we will kee…
As for the question we are raising here about the alienating incidence of the signifier, we will keep the nadir of a night in July 1994 when Ahriman, the inferior God, revealing himself to Schreber in the most impressive display of his power, addressed him with this simple word, which, in the subject’s words, is common in the fundamental language: Luder!
What remains is the arrangement of the field R in the scheme, insofar as it represents the condition…
What remains is the arrangement of the field R in the scheme, insofar as it represents the conditions in which reality is reestablished for the subject: for him, a sort of little island whose consistency is imposed on him, after the test, by its constancy; for us, linked to what makes it habitable for him, but which also distorts it, that is, excentrically.rich rearrangements of the imaginary, I, and the symbolic, S, which reduce it to the field of the mismatch between the two.
In diagram I, the maintenance of the Saa’ A path symbolizes the opinion we form, through the examina…
In diagram I, the maintenance of the Saa’ A path symbolizes the opinion we form, through the examination of this case, that the relationship with the other as similar, and even a relationship as elevated as that of friendship, in the sense that Aristotle makes it the essence of the conjugal bond, are perfectly compatible with the off-axis relationship with the big Other and with all that it entails of radical anomaly, qualified in the old clinic, improperly, but not without a certain force of approach, as partial delirium. - At the height of the imaginary dissolution, the subject shows, in his delirious apperception, a singular resource to the criterion of reality which is to always return to the same place, and shows why the stars eminently represent him: this is the reason designated by their voices by the name of connection to the earth.