El Seminario, #1: Los Escritos Técnicos De Freud 1953-1954

Le Séminaire #1

by Jacques Lacan

El maestro interrumpe el silencio con cualquier cosa, un sarcasmo, una patada. Así procede, en la técnica zen, el maestro budista en la búsqueda del sentido. A los alumnos les toca buscar la respuesta a sus propias preguntas. El maestro no enseña ex cathedra una ciencia ya constituida, da la respuesta cuando los alumnos están a punto de encontrarla. Esta enseñanza es un rechazo de todo sistema. Descubre un pensamiento en movimiento: que, sin embargo, se presta al sistema, ya que necesariamente presenta una faz dogmática. El pensamiento de Freud está abierto a revisión. Reducirlo a palabras gastadas es un error. Cada noción posee en él vida propia. Esto precisamente es lo que se llama dialéctica.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory, France, 20th Century

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953 until his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist thinkers.

Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications, and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, amongst others. Although a controversial and divisive figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy, as well as in the living practice of clinical psychoanalysis.