#parletre

[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

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

From the fact that he has a body, man also has symptoms he cannot at once identify with.

From the fact that he has a body, man also has symptoms he cannot at once identify with. In the lack of identification it is precisely the dysfunctional causing the relief of the symptom to stand out. You cannot identify yourself, except through psychoanalysis, in which one of the issues, when everything is subtracted, is to identify with the remaining symptom. The assumption is that in order to have symptoms, one must have a body, one must not be a body; and that, in order to identify with the symptom, one must have a psychoanalyst. The use of language is proof that there are many resources in ‘having’. The symptom in its natural state, the symptom not de-naturalized by analysis, is what shows that one cannot identify man with his body.

Jacques Alain Miller - The Symptom and the Body Event (1999). Trans.: B. P. Faulks [LI 19,2001]

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

The speaking being...a body affected by the signifier, a body that is moved, aroused by the unconscious.

[In] Seminar XX, jouissance and the subject are not cogitated under relational auspices, and that for a very simple reason, namely Lacan gave up on the subject. He forgoes the subject in order to invent a category, and this is the speaking-being. Here subject and jouissance are thought together under the auspices of a new entity: a body affected by the signifier, a body that is moved, aroused by the unconscious.

(…) Yet, cautiously too, he wavers all previously familiar categories so that parlêtre could, might, substitute for the very word ‘unconscious’

Jacques Alain Miller - The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis. (1999)

[psiquiatrista]

Não há nada além disto: o homem que fala, o sujeito, a partir do momento em que fala, já está implicado por essa fala em seu corpo. A raiz do conhecimento é esse engajamento no corpo.

Jacques Lacan, Seminário, Livro X, A angústia (p.241)

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

The Unconscious and the Speaking Body

The words of a language bring in representations, which constitute an illusory world for us in the model of the body’s unity.

Jacques-Alain Miller, The Unconscious and the Speaking Body. Translated by Adrian Price. (Hurly-Burly 12 (2015), pp.123-127)

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

There’s absolutely no reason why we should make ourselves the guarantors of the bourgeois dream. A little more rigor and firmness are required in our confrontation with the human condition.

There’s absolutely no reason why we should make ourselves the guarantors of the bourgeois dream. A little more rigor and firmness are required in our confrontation with the human condition. That is why I reminded you last time that the service of goods or the shift of the demand for happiness onto the political stage has its consequences. The movement that the world we live in is caught up in, of wanting to establish the universal spread of the service of goods as far as conceivably possible, implies an amputation, sacrifices, indeed a kind of puritanism in the relationship of desire that has occurred historically [that you have to cede or restrain your desire in pursuit of the good]. The establishment of the service of goods at a universal level does not in itself resolve the problem of the present relationship of each individual man to his desire in the short period of time between his birth and his death.” 

Lacan - Seminar VII. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: 1959-1960

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

There is no other way around it than to receive from a psychoanalyst that which disturbs ones defense.

The unconscious, it’s that, in short, one speaks - supposing that there is a parletre- all alone. One speaks all alone as one never says anything but one and the same thing- unless one opens oneself to a dialogue with a psychoanalyst. There is no other way around it than to receive from a psychoanalyst that which disturbs ones defense.

Lacan - Seminar of January 11th, 1977, Ornicar?

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

The objects a are taken from the body; the jouissance for which the unconscious labors is drawn from within the body.

The concept of the speaking body is the join between the Id and the unconscious. [Lacan] calls to mind how the signifying chains that we decipher in a Freudian manner are plugged into the body, and they are made up of an ‘enjoying substance’. Freud said that the Id was a great reservoir of libido, and this moves over to the speaking body which, as such, is enjoying substance. The objects a are taken from the body; the jouissance for which the unconscious labors is drawn from within the body.”

“An interpretation is an act of saying that targets the speaking body and does so in order to produce an event, in order to provoke a gut-reaction, said Lacan. This is something that can’t be anticipated, but which is verified retroactively, for the jouissance-effect is incalculable. (…) When one analyses the unconscious, the meaning of interpretation is the truth. When one analyses the speaking body, the meaning of interpretation is jouissance. This displacement from truth to jouissance sets the measure of what analytic practice is becoming in the era of the parlêtre.

Jacques Alain miller -  The Unconscious and the Speaking Body 9th Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) on 17th April 2014.