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The language of the unconscious is traumatic. It destroys the illusions of the ego or the illusions of being in charge.

The language of the unconscious is traumatic. It destroys the illusions of the ego or the illusions of being in charge. At the same time, the dream is not the ultimate word of the psychoanalytic experience. The dream is a delusionary satisfaction of desire. At the same time, the dream itself invents the way in which we can wake up.

Laurent, Éric. Psychoanalysis and Our Time (2011), [ Lacanian Ink 43/44, 2014]

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“In Lacan’s late teaching, the unconscious is defined as a form of knowledge that acts directly upon the body of the speaking being. It is a break in the representation of the subject within the signifying system.

It is a knowledge of incompatibility between the linguistic system and the body’s jouissance, a memory of breaking points, in some sense. The body emerges from this having been fragmented by a host of different trajectories that are stamped with holes.”

-Éric Laurent

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The materiality of the unconscious is made, not of learning, but of things said to the subject, that have hurt him, and of things, impossible to say, that make him suffer.

As soon as man speaks, he is submitted to the question of his truth and his most intimate identifications come to respond to the paradoxes of his link to what he says and to what has been said to him. The materiality of the unconscious is made, not of learning, but of things said to the subject, that have hurt him, and of things, impossible to say, that make him suffer. The opposition between the principles of the nervous system’s functioning, arising directly from the laws of biology and physics, and the register of another causality for founding psychology, is thus posed. Unconscious memory parasites the living [being] and alters its potency.

Éric Laurent. Uses Of The Neurosciences For Psychoanalysis. La Cause Freudienne no. 70, December 2008.

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Guiding principles for any psychoanalytic act

First principle

Psychoanalysis is a practice of speech. It involves two partners, the analyst and the analysand, brought together in a single psychoanalytic session. The analysand speaks about what brings him there, his suffering, his symptom. This symptom is hooked into the materiality of the unconscious, made out of things that have been said to the subject, that have hurt him, and things that are impossible to say and cause him suffering. An analyst will punctuate the words of the analysand and enable him to weave the thread of his unconscious. The powers of language and the truth effects that it enables, what is called interpretation, is the actual power of the unconscious. Interpretation is apparent on both sides, analysand and analyst. They do not both have the same relation to the unconscious, however, since one has already carried this experience through to the end whereas the other has not.

Eric Laurent. World Association of Psychoanalysis. 2004

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Guiding principles for any psychoanalytic act...

Third principle

An analysand will address an analyst. He will attribute sentiments, beliefs, and expectations as a reaction to what he says, and he wishes to act upon the beliefs and expectations that he anticipates. The deciphering of meaning in the exchanges between analysand and analyst is not the only thing at stake. There is also the speaker’s intention. It is a matter of recuperating something lost from the interlocutor. This recuperation of an object is the key to the Freudian myth of the drive. It founds the transference that binds the two partners together. Lacan’s formula that the subject receives his own message from the Other in inverted form includes both the deciphering and the wish to act upon whom it is that one is addressing. Ultimately, when an analysand speaks he wishes, beyond the meaning of what he says, to reach the partner of his expectations, beliefs and desires in the Other. He aims at the partner of his fantasy. A psychoanalyst, enlightened by analytic experience about the nature of his own fantasy, takes this into account. He restrains from acting in the name of this fantasy.

Eric Laurent. World Association of Psychoanalysis. 2004.

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In Lacan’s late teaching, the unconscious is defined as a form of knowledge that acts directly upon the body of the speaking being.

In Lacan’s late teaching, the unconscious is defined as a form of knowledge that acts directly upon the body of the speaking being. It is a break in the representation of the subject within the signifying system. It is a knowledge of incompatibility between the linguistic system and the body’s jouissance, a memory of breaking points, in some sense. The body emerges from this having been fragmented by a host of different trajectories that are stamped with holes.

Eric Laurent. Neural plasticity and the impossible inscription of the subject. Lost in Cognition. Karnac. [2014]

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Psychoanalysts are part and parcel of the concept of the unconscious, as they constitute that to which the unconscious is addressed.

As soon as one evokes interpretation a misunderstanding arises. The binary between the text and its interpretation misleads us. We immediately fall into the illusion that the language of the unconscious exists and that it calls for a metalanguage: interpretation. Lacan did not stop hammering home that the experience of psychoanalysis allowed him not only to affirm that there was no such thing as a metalanguage, but that saying so gave him the only chance of orienting himself correctly in this experience. Two fundamental propositions follow from this. Desire is not the metalinguistic interpretation of a previous indistinct drive. Desire is its interpretation. Both things are situated at the same level. A second proposition must be added to this: “Psychoanalysts are part and parcel of the concept of the unconscious, as they constitute that to which the unconscious is addressed.” The psychoanalyst can only hit the target if he aligns himself with the interpretation performed by the unconscious, already structured like a language. Still, we must not reduce this language to the mechanical conception that linguistics can have of it. We must add to that the topology of poetics. The poetic function reveals that language is not information, but resonance, and emphasizes the matter that links sound and meaning. It reveals what Lacan called moterialism, which in its center closes around a void.

Éric Laurent - Interpretation: From Truth to Event. Speech delivered in Tel Aviv, 2 June 2019.