Ivan Herrejon’s Reviews > The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 > Status Update

"Analysis is a sort of homeopathic discharge by the subject of his fantasies understanding of the world." Does this mean that the transference/countertransference notions that appear in analysis are a parallel of the individual's perception that allows them some sort of "healing" (for a lack of a better word)?

"History is not the past. History is the past in so far as it is historicised in the present - historicised in the present because it was lives in the past."

After Freud, a "two body psychology" (term developed by John Rickman) became a central point of view on psychoanalysis: object-relations, transference/countertransference, etc. This is a focus on the analyst and the analysand. Lacan proposes a three term relationship; the third element is speech.

His sentence structure is hard to read. Here is an example: More specifically, the ease with which the question of practical rules to be observed is dealt with shows us the extent to which they were, for Freud, an instrument, in the sense that one says one has a Haber firmly in hand.

Lacan states that what the "Freud's papers on technique" have in common is not the techniques of psychoanalysis since all of Freud's writings are centered around them. What unites them is the groundbreaking ideas that changed the course of psychoanalysis. This can be seen in Freud's seminal experience, which is the development of the terms ego, id, and superego and his inclusion in 1920 of the death drive.

I don't know anything.