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Analysis Laid Bare
How does psychoanalysis proceed? With what results? We welcome those who ask for an analysis without prejudice, without presuppositions. Someone seeks an analysis when they have stumbled on their path. There is a stone in the road, a bone encountered along the way. A psychoanalyst’s invitation is to speak.
We listen anticipating—perhaps the only anticipation we can allow ourselves—that this speech revolves around this bone in a spiral, squeezing it closer and closer, to the point of sculpting it. Circumscribing, tightening, shaping the turn; this metaphor is woven into Lacan’s texts.
From allegory to an analysis proceeds through an operation-reduction towards the real. On the analytical path, a stone of speech emerges that is related to a mode of jouissance. Lacan named it after the Greek word agalma . This stone might very well be precious.
JACQUES-ALAIN MILLER
Psychoanalyst, member of the École de la Cause freudienne, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Analysis Laid Bare is a title of the World Association of Psychoanalysis Libretto Series, published by Lacanian Press. Text established in French as L’Os d’une cure, Navarin éditeur, Paris 6e, 2019. Translation into English for this edition by Alasdair Duncan.
We listen anticipating—perhaps the only anticipation we can allow ourselves—that this speech revolves around this bone in a spiral, squeezing it closer and closer, to the point of sculpting it. Circumscribing, tightening, shaping the turn; this metaphor is woven into Lacan’s texts.
From allegory to an analysis proceeds through an operation-reduction towards the real. On the analytical path, a stone of speech emerges that is related to a mode of jouissance. Lacan named it after the Greek word agalma . This stone might very well be precious.
JACQUES-ALAIN MILLER
Psychoanalyst, member of the École de la Cause freudienne, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Analysis Laid Bare is a title of the World Association of Psychoanalysis Libretto Series, published by Lacanian Press. Text established in French as L’Os d’une cure, Navarin éditeur, Paris 6e, 2019. Translation into English for this edition by Alasdair Duncan.
- GenresPsychoanalysis
91 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2023
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Jacques-Alain Miller
275 books52 followersJacques-Alain Miller is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst.
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