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Le jour où Lacan m'a adopté
« Je m’assis, calme et décidé, sur le bord du divan. Lacan en fut tout surpris : « Que se passe-t-il ?
– Je veux vous parler face à face, cette fois.
– Eh bien, d’accord ! »
Il s’assit en face de moi. Il semblait très ému, inquiet peut-être. Les mots jaillissaient de ma bouche, tranchants comme une lame, dans une totale vérité. Qu’ai-je dit ce jour-là ? Une longue plainte probablement, jaillie de mon infinie détresse. Il m’écoutait au même niveau de vérité. Ni lui ni moi ne jouions. Quelque chose de la vie et de la mort était en débat. »
Ce texte est le récit, presque le roman, d’une expérience qui a transformé radicalement la vie de son auteur. En 1969, alors qu’il est ingénieur agronome, Gérard Haddad rencontre Jacques Lacan et commence avec lui une psychanalyse. Cette aventure va durer onze années, au cours desquelles se sera opérée une métamorphose. Pour la première fois, depuis Freud, un psychanalyste se risque à raconter sa propre analyse. Il nous livre ici un témoignage unique sur la pratique si controversée de Lacan auquel l’auteur rend pourtant hommage.
– Je veux vous parler face à face, cette fois.
– Eh bien, d’accord ! »
Il s’assit en face de moi. Il semblait très ému, inquiet peut-être. Les mots jaillissaient de ma bouche, tranchants comme une lame, dans une totale vérité. Qu’ai-je dit ce jour-là ? Une longue plainte probablement, jaillie de mon infinie détresse. Il m’écoutait au même niveau de vérité. Ni lui ni moi ne jouions. Quelque chose de la vie et de la mort était en débat. »
Ce texte est le récit, presque le roman, d’une expérience qui a transformé radicalement la vie de son auteur. En 1969, alors qu’il est ingénieur agronome, Gérard Haddad rencontre Jacques Lacan et commence avec lui une psychanalyse. Cette aventure va durer onze années, au cours desquelles se sera opérée une métamorphose. Pour la première fois, depuis Freud, un psychanalyste se risque à raconter sa propre analyse. Il nous livre ici un témoignage unique sur la pratique si controversée de Lacan auquel l’auteur rend pourtant hommage.
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448 pages, Pocket Book
First published April 2, 2002
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June 24, 2024
One of the very few public testimonies of nine years spending analysis with Lacan. These are few in amount due to the highly intimate nature of analysis, and the discretion about what is told in these sessions. Truthfully it is rather voyeuristic, and the analysts story of the "passe", meaning to go beyond ones "impasses" in speech and life is often reserved for aspiring analysts in a professional association for psychoanalysis.
Unlike this one. Gérard Haddad is a keen writer who had a life altering experience due to his rather contingent meeting with Lacan, at which point he began analysis. Trained as an agricultural engineer, but confronted with a crisis of meaning making, Haddad chooses to follow his childhood desire to become a psychiatrist and accordingly, psychoanalyst. As this goes on well he reconsiders ideas on love, intergenerational conflicts and religion.
It is a autobiographical book, starting from his youth, through personal perils and neurotic suffering untill he meets Lacan, then we follow him how his decade of analysis altered his life and thought. A work of immense self-reflection.
The most crucial theme is the question of transference. The seemingly ironic title allures to the question of fatherhood, and finding a new stability with the father function. How Lacan intervenes throughout is surprising. Of great rhetoric it reminds me of the surrealist writers, he is creative and affective, unlike the often imagined idea of the abstinent analyst. He shows emotion, and applies verbal and non-verbal 'fatherlike' gestures and affective remarks. Using variable short sessions, variable payments and provocative interpunctions he drives Haddad to a crisis-like confrontation, which allows him to break through his resistances considering transference.
A great testimony on the creative rhetoric in dynamic psychoanalytical praxis, put together in a open, highly readable text of self-disclosure.
Haddad published many works on psychoanalysis, as well as his doctor of medicin thesis on the talmudic origins of psychoanalysis 'L'enfant illegitime" (1981). A thesis formed throughout this experience of analysis. Personally converting back to his religion of Judaism, is this a converging of two hermeneutic traditions.
Unlike this one. Gérard Haddad is a keen writer who had a life altering experience due to his rather contingent meeting with Lacan, at which point he began analysis. Trained as an agricultural engineer, but confronted with a crisis of meaning making, Haddad chooses to follow his childhood desire to become a psychiatrist and accordingly, psychoanalyst. As this goes on well he reconsiders ideas on love, intergenerational conflicts and religion.
It is a autobiographical book, starting from his youth, through personal perils and neurotic suffering untill he meets Lacan, then we follow him how his decade of analysis altered his life and thought. A work of immense self-reflection.
The most crucial theme is the question of transference. The seemingly ironic title allures to the question of fatherhood, and finding a new stability with the father function. How Lacan intervenes throughout is surprising. Of great rhetoric it reminds me of the surrealist writers, he is creative and affective, unlike the often imagined idea of the abstinent analyst. He shows emotion, and applies verbal and non-verbal 'fatherlike' gestures and affective remarks. Using variable short sessions, variable payments and provocative interpunctions he drives Haddad to a crisis-like confrontation, which allows him to break through his resistances considering transference.
A great testimony on the creative rhetoric in dynamic psychoanalytical praxis, put together in a open, highly readable text of self-disclosure.
Haddad published many works on psychoanalysis, as well as his doctor of medicin thesis on the talmudic origins of psychoanalysis 'L'enfant illegitime" (1981). A thesis formed throughout this experience of analysis. Personally converting back to his religion of Judaism, is this a converging of two hermeneutic traditions.
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