The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis

By J. Lacan, Alan Sheridan, M. Bowie. 2020

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its transmission. The status of training analysis and of the teaching ot psychoanalysis must be understood anew to be identical in their scientific openness. The latter involves, like any other teaching, minimal condition-,: ;i defined relationship to the instrument us an instrument and a certain idea oi'the question raised by the material. The tact that the two converge here in a question, which is not thereby simplified, nevertheless, will perhaps close this other question with which psychoanalysis redoubles the first, in the form ot a question posed to science, by constituting a science by itself which is raised to the second power [au seconddegri\. Should the reader be surprised that I am raising this question so late in the game-—and with the same temperament which is such that it required two of the most improbable echoes of m) teaching to receive from rwo college students in the United States tincareful (and successful) translation that rwo of my articles (including "Function and Field") deserved—he should realize that my top priorit) was thai there firsi be psychoanalysts, At least 1 can now be happy thai as long as there is still some trace of what I have instituted, there will he some psychoanalyst \dupsyckantdyste\ who responds to certain subjective emergencies, should qualifying them with the definite article be saying too much, or else (till desiring too much.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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