1st Edition

Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter A Lacanian Perspective

By Colette Soler Copyright 2024
112 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching. In psychoanalysis, the subject who is summoned “to speak himself” is by definition lacking in identity. His question is “What am I?” but, as he is only represented by his words, his being is “always... Read more

Dedication

Preface

I. November 12, 2014

   Analytic context

   Consciousness of identity

   Identity called into question

   Towards identity

II. November 26, 2014

    Apparolé” to capitalism

    Identity and the Social Link

    The segregative option

    “Not all apparolé” to capitalism

III. December 17, 2015

     Identity put into question

     The subject represented

     The entrance of the subject into the real

     The function of identifications

IV. January 7, 2015

     The order of identifications

     Two primordial identifications

      “The imaginary path”

      An absence

V. January 21, 2015

     Phallus, are you there?

     Genealogy of the phallus

     The phallocentric clinic

VI. February 4, 2015

      Socialising phallus

      Two lacks

      And the Name-of-the-Father?

VII. March 11, 2015

       The primordial identification

       Subversion

       Copulatory function of the phallus

VIII. March 25, 2015

       Maternal castration

       The phallic supplement

       The collective and the individual

       Context

IX. April 8, 2015

     Our context

     In the footsteps of Freud

         A single psychology

         “Civilizing” love

         The three identifications

 X. May 6, 2015

    The principle of cohesion

     The Freudian group is not a discourse

     Links between peers?

  XI. May 20, 2015

     Dialectic of phallic identifications

     Unconscious desire and genitality

     Jouissance of the body…

     What body?

     The unlikely body

 XII. June 3, 2015

       Identification with the symptom

       Non extimate jouissance

       Of the real Ones

       To identify oneself without identifying?

Biography

Colette Soler practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris. She holds an agrégation in philosophy and a doctorate in psychology. It was her encounter with the teaching and person of Jacques Lacan that led her to choose psychoanalysis. She was a member of the École Freudienne de Paris and, following its dissolution, became the Director of the École de la Cause Freudienne, after which she was at the forefront of the movement of the International of the Forums and its School of Psychoanalysis.