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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
Sigmund Freud. Letter to Ludwig Binswanger. Mourning and Melancholia. Standard Edition. 1917.
self-affirmation does not deliver relief from the discomfort experienced. The being retains its opacity. Psychoanalysis welcomes everyone’s differences without prejudice, and it invites everyone to produce what is most unique. Psychoanalysis is therefore not normative. This does not mean, however, that it agrees to bow to identity politics. Such politics, in fact, are powerless to treat the suffering these subjects testify to.
How topical is the theme of interpretation ?
Agnès Aflalo:
People have never expressed themselves as much as they do today. We talk about ourselves all the time, even in the most intimate detail, particularly on social networks. To the extent that for some, it is enough to say: “I am what I say I am” to think that they really are. There are different ways of doing so: I’m dys, HIP, trans, autistic, etc. This self-nomination wills to no longer be a symptom, but a lifestyle which tends to prohibit any questioning, any interpretation, as if the being had become transparent to itself.
However, experience shows that we must go through the Other again because self-affirmation does not deliver relief from the discomfort experienced. The being retains its opacity. Psychoanalysis welcomes everyone’s differences without prejudice, and it invites everyone to produce what is most unique. Psychoanalysis is therefore not normative. This does not mean, however, that it agrees to bow to identity politics. Such politics, in fact, are powerless to treat the suffering these subjects testify to.
Interview with Agnès Aflalo. Alexandre Gilbert Gallerie Chappe.
A psychoanalysis, consists in speaking freely, in not hushing the ideas that go through your head, like we’re doing right now. Little by little, from within your own words, another meaning forms and surprises you, then falls apart, taking the pain with it.
A psychoanalysis, consists in speaking freely, in not hushing the ideas that go through your head, like we’re doing right now. Little by little, from within your own words, another meaning forms and surprises you, then falls apart, taking the pain with it. Usually, you discover just how conditioned you had been by apparently minute elements encountered in hazardous circumstances: things from childhood, meetings, certain words said to you, and we keep coming back to them until the malevolent charge of these elements softens. Each case is different.
Jacques-Alain Miller, ‘Response to the Anti-Freudians’, Le Point, 22.09.05.
At the root of any request to begin an analysis, there is always affective suffering that is hard to bear and that is looking for a cure.
Affects are a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis. Isn’t it owing to disturbing symptoms that people call upon analysts, so that the latter may help them explore and assuage those symptoms? And who would want to get well if their symptoms – whether hysterical, obsessional, or involving impotence or some more vague malaise – were not accompanied by painful affects such as sorrow, discouragement, dejection, or even a distaste for life? At the root of any request to begin an analysis, there is always affective suffering that is hard to bear and that is looking for a cure.
Colette Soler. Lacanian Affects: The function of affect in Lacan's work. Routledge 2015.
Melancholia…ends up in asymbolia, and loss of meaning: if I am no longer capable of translating or metaphorizing, I become silent and I die…
Julia Kristeva - Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (European perspectives). Columbia University Press 1992.
The modern subject is subjected to the social bond of the capitalist discourse. His structure has not changed, but his relationships to language and to jouissance have been modified. The subject invents solutions in order to construct his subjectivity and bear his existence
The symptom as a bodily event is the point of exception to the established form of social bond and is connected to the jouissance of the body. The modern subject is subjected to the social bond of the capitalist discourse. His structure has not changed, but his relationships to language and to jouissance have been modified. The subject invents solutions in order to construct his subjectivity and bear his existence, but also to object to the Other or signify his annulment as it is dictated by the capitalist’s discourse. What is the place of psychoanalysis in these conditions of subjectivisation?
Lissy Canellopoulos- The bodily event, jouissance and the (post)modern subject. Recherches en psychanalyse, L'Esprit du Temps. 2010/2.
