#ja miller

[chrisengel]

“Generally speaking, it must be said that the first symptom that the subject brings to analysis is his ego - his delusion of his identity.” Jacques-Alain Miller, Donc, Therefore, 1994

[chrisengel]

“I must say that in the last teaching, Lacan is very close to saying that all of the symbolic order is a delusion, including his own construction of the symbolic order. In fact, life doesn’t make sense. Making sense is already delusional. And that is a very deeply held conviction of Lacan’s. In practice, when you understand what the patient says, you’re captured by his delusion, by his way of making sense. Your work as a clinician is not to understand what he says. It’s not to participate in his delusion. Your work as a clinician is to understand the particular way, the peculiar way he makes sense of things, how he always makes the same sense of things, how he makes sense of the repetition in his life.” @jamplus, Ordinary Psychosis Revisited

[chrisengel]

“The unconscious, when it is conceptualised starting off from speech and no longer from consciousness, carries a new name: the parlêtre. The être, the Being at issue, does not come from speech. On the contrary, speech attributes Being to this animal through a retroactive effect, and from that point forth the body separates off from this Being in order to pass over to the register of having. The parlêtre has his body, rather than being it. The parlêtre is grappling with his body as something imaginary, just as he is grappling with retroactive effect, and from that point forth the body separates off from this Being in order to pass over to the register of having. The parlêtre has his body, rather than being it. The parlêtre is grappling with his body as something imaginary, just as he is grappling with the symbolic. The third term, the real, is the complex or the implex of the other two.” Jacques-Alain Miller @jamplus The Unconscious and the Speaking Body