Contents/Index

Introduction – title & quotation

Published in English

Published in French

Date of Sessions, Page numbers together with Jacques Lacan's references & citations: Cormac Gallagher's translation (www.LacaninIreland.com), which includes Seminar X 16th January 1963, A chronology of Lacan's comment, Love as "giving what you do not have"

Date of Sessions, Chapter number & Jacques-Alain Miller's headings : Adrian Price's translation.

Links to Freud on 'Anxiety – Now published as 'Angst translated as Anxiety in Sigmund Freud's texts' : 26th February 2025 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)

Note about Sacha Nacht & Timeline

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Movement from www.LacanianWorks.net to this site, www.LacanianWorks.ORG

The intention is to transfer all posts from www.LacanianWorks.net to this website, www.LacanianWorks.org. Having checked this site, LW.ORG, then should any still be in the queue, then either use the link provided or go to https://web.archive.org/LacanianWorks.net or go to https://oldweb.today or contact Julia Evans. Many texts are available from www.LacanianWorksExchange.net.

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Introduction

This is the start of a work-in-progress to track down the references cited by Jacques Lacan in Seminar X. In particular, help is requested on references to Freud and finding on-line copies in English to Kierkegaard and Hegel and……….. [Updated 19th December 2011, 23rd December 2011, 7th January 2012, 21st October 2012, 18th February 2014, 31st July 2018]

Note : [Updated 7.1.2012] In the Walter Lowrie, 1957 translation, Kierkegaard's title is translated as 'The concept of dread'. I prefer this translation of L'Angoisse. Update 25.10.2023, I now think that Sigmund Freud's term Angst should be translated as 'angst' & Jacques Lacan's term 'l'angoisse' as 'The Anguish'

Further Note on Translation, July 2022, amended February 2025

Change of title – So Jacques Lacan actually calls this seminar 'De l'angoisse' – 'From/Of the Anguish'.

Sigmund Freud uses the term 'angst'. This has been translated by James Strachey as 'anxiety'.

This is now available as

Note on Translating Angst & L'Angoisse as Anxiety : 20th February 2025 : Julia Evans, on this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)

Or see – Links to Freud on 'Angst (Anxiety)' – Now available as 'Angst translated as Anxiety in Sigmund Freud's texts' : 26th February 2025 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)

Related texts

Journées Provinciales, Annuale 1962-1963 – Introduction to the Seminar on Anguish (l'Angoisse) : 21st October 1962 : Jacques Lacan, see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19621021)

Lecture XXV The Angst [Die Angst] : 1917 : Sigmund Freud on this site /4 Sigmund Freud for a more detailed explanation

& Draft E How Anguish [Angst] Originates : 6th June 1894? : Sigmund Freud, see this site /3 Sigmund Freud (June 1894)

QUOTATION

From Seminar XVI 7th May 1969

« L'angoisse, ai-je dit dans un temps, n'est pas sans objet ».

Mistranslated by both Cormac Gallagher & Bruce Fink as 'Anxiety' Corrected translation is

"The anguish", as I once said, "is not without an object."

Seminar XVI From an other to the Other (1968-1969) : from 13th November 1968 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19681113).

'Anguish is not without an object' is taken from Sigmund Freud, as given in Seminar IV.

Seminar IV 20th March 1957. EC translation due to be published June 2024. quote, The difference that there is between anguish (l'angosse)… that literally is something without object, and there [là ], I only set about repeating Freud because he articulated it perfectly, …and the phobia,

Little Hans – Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, SE X p24-25 : It is this heightened tenderness for the mother that turns into angst [Strachey gives fear] which, as we say, is subject to repression. We do not yet know where the impulse to repression comes from; perhaps it is merely the result of an intensity of emotion that the child cannot cope with, or perhaps other forces that we do not yet recognize are involved. We will continue to find out. This [heightened tenderness for the mother/angst], which corresponds to repressed erotic longing [erotischer Sehnsucht], is at first, like every child's angst [Strachey gives fear], objectless, still angst and not fear. The child cannot [initially] know what it is afraid of, and if Hans does not want to say what he is afraid of on his first walk with the girl, he does not yet know. Published bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com /homepage (Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy (Little Hans)).

Published in English :

– Translated by Cormac Gallagher from unedited tapes, see www.LacaninIreland.com, available here

– Translated by Adrian Price, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, 'The Seminar, Book X, Anxiety,' by Jacques Lacan, Polity, Cambridge, 2014.

Published in French :

Official text, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan: Le Séminaire, Livre X, L'Angoisse: Paris, Seuil: June 9, 2004

Transcription published at http://staferla.free.fr or http://www.valas.fr/?lang=fr You may have to search on Séminaire IV de Jacques Lacan – usually on the second page of links!

Related Texts :

Texts on Seminar X at https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/category/works-in-progress/reading-seminar-x/ or www.LacanianWorks.org /1 A Lacanian Clinic (m) Seminar X, Jacques Lacan)

The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard : Available LW.org/1844 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=317. Further details of Kierkegaard's publications are available http:/plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/.

Relieve Anxiety? : December 2003 : Éric Laurent or LW.org/December 2003 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12155

Introduction to the Reading of Jacques Lacan's Seminar X (Angoisse) : April, May & June 2004 : Jacques-Alain Miller or LW.org/April 2004 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12808

On the False usefulness of Anxiety and the Benefits of Working through it : October 2004 : François Leguil or LW.org/October 2004 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12153

Commentary : The Option of Anxiety : October 2004 : Jean-Louis Gault. Published in the International Lacanian Review : October 2004 : Notes at LW.org/October 2004. Download www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Gault) or authors by date (October 2004) – Further texts on Seminar X https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/category/works-in-progress/reading-seminar-x/ or www.LacanianWorks.org/1 A Lacanian Clinic (Seminar X) , – By Jean-Louis Gault https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/category/works-in-progress/reading-seminar-x/https://lacanianworks.net/category/by-author/gault-jean-louis/

Anxiety Constituent and Constituted : (probably Paris) November 2005 : Jacques-Alain Miller or LW.org/November 2005 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12102

The function of the anxiety : 13th July 2006 (Rome) : François Leguil or LW.org/July 2006 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12095

Objects a in the analytic experience : 15th July 2006 (Rome) : Jacques-Alain Miller or LW.org/July 2006 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12818

On Lacan's remarks on Chinese Poetry in Seminar XXIV : November 2009 : Adrian Price or LW.org/November 2009 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12322

Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits : 16th December 2011 : Julia Evans or LW.org/December 2011 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=209

The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan's Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts : 16th January 2012 : Julia Evans or LW.org/January 2012 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=235

Many texts by Sigmund Freud can be found bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com or Sigmund Freud's texts available electronically or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=361 or an up to date list is at www.LacanianWorks.org /3 Sigmund Freud

Date of Sessions, Page numbers together with Jacques Lacan's references & quotations: Cormac Gallagher's translation (www.LacaninIreland.com)

This is a work in progress and please contact me with any other missing references.

General Notes:

Lacan and Topology : 8th October 2011 : Bruno de Florence or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=126

The function of the anxiety : 13th July 2006 (Rome) : François Leguil or LW.org/July 2006 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12095

I 14th November 1962 : pI 2 to pI 10

p1 1 of Cormac Gallagher's translation in Note on Translating Angst & L'Angoisse as Anxiety : 20th February 2025 : Julia Evans, on this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)

pI 2 of Cormac Gallagher's translation in Journées Provinciales, Annuale 1962-1963 – Introduction to the Seminar on Anguish (l'Angoisse not Anxiety) : 21st October 1962 : Jacques Lacan (www.LacanianWorks.ORG /October 1962

(p5) Some relations between Jacques Lacan and by Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits : 16th December 2011 : Julia Evans or LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=209

II 21st November 1962 : pII 11 to pII 19

REFERENCES

Charles Blondel: La conscience morbide: 1919 (Translations available) JE will look for an on-line version.

The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard : Available LW.org/1844 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=317. Further details of Kierkegaard's publications are available here.

G. W. F. Hegel: Phenomenology of the Spirit: 1807 Further references or on-line editions to be found.

pII 13-14 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : See On the psychoanalytic theory of affects : Autumn 1953 : David Rapaport on this site /5 Authors A-Z (Rapaport or Index of Authors' texts.)

NOTES

pII 15 of Cormac Gallagher's translation in LW.ORG, this site, /Journées Provinciales, Annuale 1962-1963 – Introduction to the Seminar on Anguish (l'Angoisse not Anxiety) : 21st October 1962 : Jacques Lacan

(p5) Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits : 16th December 2011 : Julia Evans or LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=209

pII 13-14 of Cormac Gallagher's translation in Note on Translating Angst & L'Angoisse as Anxiety : 20th February 2025 : Julia Evans, on this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)

pII 15 of Cormac Gallagher's translation quoted in Tracking Jacques Lacan's development of the use of 'logos' : 30th October 2013 : Julia Evans or LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1261

pII 15 of Cormac Gallagher's translation, : what I began to indicate to you about something which goes further, namely that anxiety [may be from l'angoisse which is anguish] is this certain relationship which I have only imaged up to now. I recalled for you the last time the image, with the sketch I re-evoked of my presence, my very modest and embarrassed presence in the presence of the giant praying mantis, I already told you more therefore in saying to you: this is related to the desire of the Other. :
may be related to Hate in the Counter-Transference : 5th February 1947 (London) : Donald W. Winnicott See https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/1947/02/%EF%BF%BChate-in-the-counter-transference-5th-february-1947-london-donald-w-winnicott/ or www.LacanianWorks.org(this site)/February 1947 or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net/authors a-z (Winnicott)

III 28th November 1962 : pIII 20 to pIII 28

REFERENCES

Claude Lévy-Strauss: La pensée sauvage: References to be found.

The Interpretation of Dreams : 6th November 1899 (published as 1900) : Sigmund Freud : see www.LacanianWorks.org (this site)/November 1899

IV 5th December 1962 : pIV 29 to pIV 36

V 12th December 1962 : pV 37 to pV 46

NOTE

Probable reference to Sacha Nacht – see the note below.

Notes on Sacha Nacht What is concealed by the so-called "Cht" and why? : 9th March 2019 : Réginald Blanchet or LW.org/March 2019 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12329

REFERENCES

pV 41 Ernest Jones (1910) : 'Pathology of the Nightmare' printed in Ernest Jones, 'On Nightmares' , International Psycho-analytical Library, The Hogarth Press, 1931. See Pathology of the Nightmare (On the Nightmare) : 1931 : Ernest Jones at this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Jones) for notes & availability & quotation from pV 41 of Cormac Gallagher's translation of this session

CITATION

The Flavour of Nightmare by Oriol Corbacho, 30th November 2019, LRO 195, See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Corbacho) or with notes www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z (Corbacho) Quotes p61 of Adrian Price's translation = Seminar X : 12th December 1962 : pV 41 of Cormac Gallagher's translation quotes : Ernest Jones (1910) : 'Pathology of the Nightmare'

VI 19th December 1962 : pVI 47 to pVI 55

pVI 49 of Cormac Gallagher's translation in LW.ORG/Journées Provinciales, Annuale 1962-1963 – Introduction to the Seminar on Anguish (l'Angoisse not Anxiety) : 21st October 1962 : Jacques Lacan

Quotation given from pVI 49 & 50-51 of Cormac Gallagher in On Lacan's remarks on Chinese Poetry in Seminar XXIV : November 2009 : Adrian Price or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12322 for 'Anguish (Anxiety) is framed' & 'Anxiety is not without an object.'

Towards XXIInd NLS Congress – Clinic of the Gaze, 11 & 12 May 2024 (Dublin, Ireland), https://www.amp-nls.org/nls-in-the-wap/, circulated From: NLS-Messager, Subject: [nls-messager] 4793.en/ POP-UP : CITATION – QUOTATION, Date: 1 February 2024 at 09:08:54 GMT, from Seminar X 19th December,

pVI 49-50 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : … it is, whatever may be the charm of what is painted on the canvas, not to see what can be seen through the window.

"What the inaugural dream in the history of analysis shows us in the dream of the Wolfman, whose privilege, as happens incidentally and in an unambiguous fashion, is that it is the apparition in the dream of a pure schematic form of the phantasy, it is because the repetitive dream of the Wolfman is the pure phantasy unveiled in its structure, that it takes on its importance, and that Freud chooses it to make, in this observation which only has this unexhausted, inexhaustible character for us because it involves essentially, from beginning to end, the relationship of the phantasy to the real."

What do we see in this dream? The sudden opening – and the two terms are indicated – of a window. The phantasy is seen beyond a pane and through a window which opens, the phantasy is framed; and you will recognise in what you see beyond – if you know of course how to perceive it – you will recognise in its most diverse forms the same structure that you see here in the mirror of my schema.

The above translation from unedited tapes, is so different, even unrecognisable, to the text quoted in the NLS-messager circulation, here it is : p73 of Adrian Price's translation : « It so happens that in dreams people see appearing, and in an unambiguous way, a pure, schematic form of the fantasy. This is the case in the dream from the study on The Wolf Man. This recurring dream takes on all its importance, and Freud chooses it as central, because it is the pure fantasy unveiled in its structure. This observation has an unexhausted and inexhaustible character because it essentially concerns, from beginning to end, the fantasy's relation to the real ».

VII 9th January 1963 : pVII 56 to pVII 66

pVII 56 of Cormac Gallagher's translation, quotes Lecture XXXII, see Lecture XXXII – Angst and Life Drives (Anxiety and Instinctual Life) : June 1932 [1933] : Sigmund Freud, at this site /3 Sigmund Freud (19320630)

In the thirty-second introductory lecture to psychoanalysis, namely in the series of New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis which has been translated into French, Freud specifies that it is a matter of introducing something which has not, he says, in any way a purely speculative character, but it has been translated for us in the unintelligible French which you can form your own opinion of: "Mais il ne peut vraiment être question que de conceptions. En effet,il s'agit de trouver les idées abstraites, justes qui appliquées à la matière brute de l'observation y apporteront ordre et clarté".

There is no full stop in German where I have shown it, and there is no enigma in the sentence: "It is a matter", Freud tells us, "Sondern es handelt sich wirklich", not truly but really, "of conceptions" (comma), namely I mean by that Vorstellungen, correct abstract representations, it is a matter of einzufahren them, of bringing them, of bringing to light, these conceptions whose application to the rohe Stoff, the raw material of observation, Beobachtung, will permit us to make emerge from them, to give birth from them to order and transparency.

It is obviously always distressing to entrust something as precious as the translation of Freud to ladies-in-waiting. [JE : Probably a reference to Princess Marie Bonaparte]

JE notes : Jacques Lacan also complains about translation in Seminar IV 6th February 1957, when he reads a passage from Sigmund Freud in the original German. See EC Collectives' translation at Seminar IV The Relation from Object (La relation d'objet) & Freudian Structures (1956-1957) : from 21st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan, this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19561121)

There follows an official translation, the German original and an internet translation.

Probably James Strachey : But it is truly a matter of conceptions – that is to say, of introducing the right abstract ideas, whose application to the raw material of observation will produce order and clarity in it.

The German original : Sondern es handelt sich wirklich um Auffassungen, d.h. darum, die richtigen abstrakten Vorstellungen einzuführen, deren Anwendung auf den Rohstoff der Beobachtung Ordnung und Durchsichtigkeit in ihm entstehen läßt.

An internet translation : But it's really about opinions, i.e. about the correct abstract ones to introduce ideas, and their application to the raw material of observation allows order and transparency to arise within it.

pVII 57-58 of Cormac Gallagher's translation quoted in An Encounter with a Statue : 26th October 2019 : Aaron Gilat : See LW.org/October 2019 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12369

VIII 16th January 1963 : pVIII 67 to pVIII 76

pVIII 68 of Cormac Gallagher's translation, quotes Lecture XXXII, see Lecture XXXII – Angst and Life Drives (Anxiety and Instinctual Life) : June 1932 [1933] : Sigmund Freud, at this site /3 Sigmund Freud (19320630)

Lacan : Let it suffice for me to – if you want to check it against a text, I would refer you to the XXXIInd lecture from the Introduction to Psychoanalysis, which can be found in what is called the new series of Vorlesungen, the one I quoted the last time – it is clear that the distinction between Ziel, the goal of the drive and the Objekt is something quite different to what you first think, that this goal and this object should be at the same place. And the statements of Freud that you will find in this place, in the lecture that I am designating for you, employ very striking terms, the first of which is the term eingeschoben: the object slides in it, goes somewhere – it is the same word which is used for the Verschiebung which designates displacement – the object in its essential function as the something which slips away is here highlighted as such, at the level of understanding which is properly our own.

On the other hand, there is, at this level the explicit opposition between two terms äusseres, external, outside, and inneres, inside. It is specified that the object is no doubt to be situated äusseres, on the outside, and on the other hand that the satisfaction of the tendency is only found to be accomplished in so far as it connects up with something which is to be considered in the inneres, the inside of the body, it is there that it finds its Befriedigung, its satisfaction. This also tells you that what I introduced for you as a topological function allows us to formulate in a clear fashion that what has to be introduced here to resolve this impasse, this riddle, is the notion of an outside before a certain interiorisation, of the outside which is situated here, o, before the subject at the locus of the Other, grasps himself in x in this specular form which introduces for him the distinction between the me and the not-me.

From Lecture XXXII

In German, Das Ziel kann am eigenen Körper erreicht werden, in der Regel ist ein äußeres Objekt eingeschoben, an dem der Trieb sein äußeres Ziel erreicht; sein inneres bleibt jedesmal die als Befriedigung empfundene Körperveränderung. Ob die Beziehung zur somatischen Quelle dem Trieb eine Spezifität verleiht und welche, ist uns nicht klar geworden.

In probably James Strachey's translation, The aim can be achieved in the subject's own body; as a rule an external object is brought in (eingeschoben), in regard to which the drive (instinct) achieves its external aim; its internal aim invariably remains the bodily change which is felt as satisfaction (Befriedigung). It has not become clear to us whether the relation of the drive (instinct) to its somatic source gives it a specific quality and if so what.

-Quotation from pVIII 73 of Cormac Gallagher given On Lacan's remarks on Chinese Poetry in Seminar XXIV : November 2009 : Adrian Price or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12322

NOTES

(p?) Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits : 16th December 2011 : Julia Evans or LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=209

Quotation

Footnote 3 in Emilia Cece – Brain or drive, 29th January 2019 In "The Irreconcilable of contingency" Available in English https://www.pipol9.eu/2019/01/29/emilia-cece-brain-or-drive/?lang=en& : 'When Lacan specifies in Seminar X that the object of desire (3) has a dual nature of cause and aim', : p119 in the French text

There are difficulties with this reference as it appears not to be correct. p119 is the beginning of Seminar X : 16th January 1963. It may be that the whole session is being referenced.

However it is more likely to be the following:

Seminar X : 16th January 1963 pVIII 68 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : www.LacaninIreland.com

You know how, in the progress of epistemology, the isolation of the notion of cause has produced considerable difficulties. It is not without a series of reductions which end up by leading it to the most tenuous and the most equivocal function that the notion of cause was able to be maintained in the development of what in the largest sense we could call our physics.

It is clear on the other hand that whatever reduction one submits it to, what one might call the mental function of this notion cannot be eliminated, reduced to a sort of metaphysical shadow. We clearly sense that there is something, which it is too little to say that is a recourse to intuition, which makes it subsist, which remains around this function of cause, and I claim that it is starting from the re-examination that we can make of it, starting from analytic experience, that the whole Critique of Pure Reason, brought up to date with our science, could re-establish a correct status of cause.

I scarcely dare to say to introduce it – for after all what I am going to formulate is here only a discourse event and scarcely anchored in this dialectic – I would say then, to fix our aims, what I intend to make you understand. The object, the object a, this object which is not to be situated in anything whatsoever which is analogous to the intentionality of an noeme, which is not in the intentionality of desire, this object ought to be conceived by us as the cause of desire, and, to take up my metaphor of a little while ago, the object is behind desire.

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Comments on Love as "giving what you do not have"

This is now published separately as Tracing Jacques Lacan's 'Love as "giving what you do not have" ' : 23rd February 2025 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)

'Seminar X : 16th January 1963

pVIII 73-74 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : For it is with this lack that he loves. It is not for nothing that for years I have been repeating to you that love is to give what one does not have. This is even the principle of the castration complex: in order to have the phallus, in order to be able to make use of it, it is necessary precisely not to be it.

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IX 23rd January 1963 : pIX 77 to pIX 88

REFERENCES

The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan : Available LW.org/July 1958 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=138

Ego psychology and interpretation in psychoanalytic therapies (Case 'fresh brains') : December 1948 (New York) [1951] : Ernst Kris : Available LW.org/December 1948 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1197

Intellectual Inhibition & Disturbances in Eating (Dream 'fresh brains') : September 1933 [Published1938] : Melitta Schmideberg : Available here LW.org/September 1933 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1488

Seminar X : 23rd January 1963: pIX 85 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : I note the existence, in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, of the article by Phyllis Greenacre; ….. It is a very interesting article in many ways…. : General Problems of Acting-out : May 1949 (Montreal, Canada) : Phyllis Greenacre : Available LW.org/May 1949 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12224

Seminar X : 23rd January 1963: pIX 85 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : …. and evokes a memory for me: it was at the time about ten years ago when we had already received a visit from some investigators. : See Minutes of the meeting of the International Psychoanalytical Association : 30th July 1953 : Dr Heinz Hartmann (IPA President & Chairman of the Meeting) : Available LW.org/July 1953 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12011

NOTES

Jacques Lacan comments Dream 'fresh brains' in Seminars I, III, VI & X and Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis : 26th & 27th September 1953 & Direction of the Treatment : 10th to 13th July 1958 : 30th January 2014 : Julia Evans : Available LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1342

X 30th January 1963 : pX 89 to pX 100

NOTE

Probable reference to Sacha Nacht – see the note below.

Notes on Sacha Nacht What is concealed by the so-called "Cht" and why? : 9th March 2019 : Réginald Blanchet or LW.org/March 2019 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12329

REFERENCES

(p4 of Ch X) R : The analyst's total response to his patient's needs : 1957 : Margaret Little See LW.org/January 1957 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12813

Barbara Low : The Psychological Compensations of the Analyst : 1935, International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJPA) Vol XVI January 1935 (Part 1), See www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Low) or authors by date (1935) & keep checking LW.ORG/January 1935
pX 90 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : probably The Curative Factors in Psycho-Analysis : July-August 1961 (Edinburgh) : Sacha Nacht : See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Nacht) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net

pX 92 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : Countertransference and the Patient's Response : 1951 : Margaret Little , see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Little) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net.

(pX99-100 of Sem X) On the experiences of the analyst in the Psychoanalytic situation: a contribution to the theory of Psychoanalytic treatment : 14th October 1955 (Washington, USA) : Thomas Szasz, see this site / 5 Authors A-Z (Szasz or Index of Authors' texts).

Quote PX99-100 of Cormac Gallagher's translation, 30th January 1963, www.Lacaninireland.com, I think that you will not confuse, after today's discourse, this remark with the one which is usually made about frustrations. Something else is involved. What is involved is the frontier, the limit where the place of the lack is established.

A continuous, I mean varied reflection about the different, metonymical forms in which there appear in clinical practice the focal points of this lack, will constitute the continuation of our discourse. But we cannot but treat it ceaselessly along with the putting into question of what one can call the goals of analysis. The positions taken up in this respect are so instructive, educative that I would like at the point that we are at, that besides this article to which it would be appropriate to return, to follow it in detail, you should read another article by someone called Szasz on the goals of analytic treatment, "On the Theory of Psychoanalytic Treatment", in which you will see that there is advanced the following: it is that the aims of analysis are given by its rule. And that its rule, and at the same time its aims can only be defined as promoting as a final goal of analysis, of every analysis whether it is didactic or not, the initiation of the patient into a scientific point of view – that is how the author expresses himself – concerning his own movements.

Is that a definition? I am not saying that we can accept it or reject it, it is one of the extreme positions, it is undoubtedly a very singular and specialised position. I am not saying: is it a definition that we could accept? I am saying: what can that definition teach us?

Related text : Psychoanalytic training, A Socio-Psychological Analysis of its History and Present Status : 1958 : Thomas S. Szasz, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Szasz).

Related text : Book Review of 'The Myth of Mental Illness' by Thomas Szasz (1961), published IJPA, v44, 1962, Reviewer – Charles Rycroft See www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Szasz) or authors by date (1961).

XI 20th February 1963 Missing from both this (Cormac Gallagher's) translation and the French 2004 version – see below. This was a closed session when the Margaret Little, Barbara Low & Thomas Szasz articles were commented on by Madame Aulagmier and Monsieur Granoff (with François Perrier). (Julia Evans intends to produce a text on this article to try to cover this gap.)

XII 27th February 1963 : pXII 102 to 108

CITATION

27th February 1963, pXII 103-104 of Cormac Gallagher's translation cites four analysts : The people involved, whether we are dealing with Szasz, or with Barbara Low herself, whether we are dealing still more with Margaret Little – and I will say later how things have been advanced in this respect in the extraordinary confidences in which Lucia Tower, the most recent author, has spoken about very profoundly on this subject, more specifically has made a very profound avowal of her experience – none of these authors can avoid putting things on the plane of desire.

REFERENCES

PXII 107 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : Countertransference and the Patient's Response : 1951 : Margaret Little or LW.org/January 1951 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12217

Countertransference : 1956 : Lucia E. Tower : Available LW.org/January 1956 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1154

Margaret Little (1957) op.cit. : See Margaret Little : R – The analyst's total response to his patient's needs : 1957 at https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12813 or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Little)

Barbara Low (1935): op. cit.

Commentary

The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan's Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts : 16th January 2012 : Julia Evans or LW.org/5 Other Authors (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=235

XIII 6th March 1963 : pXIII 109 to pXIII 117

Citation

6th March 1963, pXIII 116-117 of Cormac Gallagher's translation on p160 of "There is no sexual relation" What does it mean? Clinical Consequences of Lacan's Formulae of Sexuation : 28th September 2013 (Dublin) : Patrick Monribot. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Monribot)

XIV 13th March 1963 : pXIV 118 to pXIV 127

Reference

Countertransference : 1956 : Lucia E. Tower : Available LW.org/January 1956 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1154

XV 20th March 1963 : pXV 128 to pXV 138

REFERENCE

Countertransference : 1956 : Lucia E. Tower or LW.org/January 1956 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=1154

NOTES

See The finger in the sand : 16th May 2012 : Bruno de Florence or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=353 for a discussion of the reference to Merleau-Ponty and Sartre.

(p175) Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits : 16th December 2011 : Julia Evans or LW.org/5 Other Authors (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=209

XVI 27th March 1963 : pXVI 139 to pXVI 147

XVII 8th May 1963 : pXVII 148 to pXVII 159

Quotation from pXVII 156-157 given in On Lacan's remarks on Chinese Poetry in Seminar XXIV : November 2009 : Adrian Price or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12322

pXVII 152 quoted in Metamorphosis & Extraction of the Object a in the Pragmatics of the Cure : 16th March 2008 (Ghent, Belgium) : Éric Laurent, See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /laurent (March 2008)

XVIII 15th May 1963 : pXVIII 160 to pXVIII 169

Citation

Towards the NLS Congress 'The Clinic of the Gaze', May 2024, Dublin, Ireland, circulated on NLS Messager as 4873.fr/ POP-UP FLASH #8 on 1st April 2024, p242 of Adrian Price's translation, Polity 2014 15th May 1963, pXVII p18-19 of Cormac Gallagher's translation, www.LacaninIreland.com 15 Mai 1963, p151 of the transcription from recordings, http://staferla.free.fr
"The Buddha's image seems to carry us towards this zero point to the very extent that its lowered eyelids protect us from the fascination of the gaze while at the same time indicating it to us.

This figure is, within the visible, entirely turned towards the invisible, but it spares us this invisible."

In this method of approaching the function of the partial object which is the eye, in this new field of its relationship to desire, what appears as correlative of the small o function of the object of the phantasy, is something that we can call a zero point whose influence over the whole field of vision is what gives to this field, a source for us of a sort of pacification expressed for a long time, from earliest times, in the term contemplation, of suspension from the tearing apart of desire, a fragile suspension certainly, as fragile as a curtain always ready to be pulled back to unmask the mystery that it hides.

This zero point towards which the image of the Buddha seems to carry us in the very measure that his lowered eyelids protect us from the fascination of the look while at the same time indicating to us

this figure which in the visible is always turned towards the invisible, but who spares us it,

this figure in a word takes entire charge of the point of anguish [JE] here,

it is not for nothing that it suspends, that it apparently cancels out the mystery of castration.

This is what I wanted to indicate to you the last time by my remarks and the little survey that I had made about the apparent psychological ambiguity of these figures.

Dans ce mode d'abord de la fonction de l'objet partiel qu'est l'œil, dans ce nouveau champ et son rapport au désir, ce qui apparaît comme corrélatif du petit (a), fonction de l'objet du fantasme, est quelque chose que nous pouvons appeler un point zéro, dont l'éploiement sur tout le champ de la vision, est ce qui donne à ce champ, source pour nous d'une sorte d'apaisement, traduit depuis longtemps, depuis toujours, dans le terme de contemplation, de suspension du déchirement du désir, suspension certes fragile, aussi fragile qu'un rideau toujours prêt à se reployer pour démasquer ce mystère qu'il cache.

Ce point zéro vers lequel l'image bouddhique semble nous porter dans la mesure même où ses paupières abaissées nous préservent de la fascination du regard tout en nous l'indiquant…

– cette figure qui dans le visible est toute tournée vers l'invisible, mais qui nous l'épargne,

– cette figure, pour tout dire qui prend ici le point d'angoisse tout entier à sa charge,

…ce n'est pas pour rien aussi qu'elle suspend, qu'elle annule, apparemment, le mystère de la castration.

C'est ce que j'ai voulu vous indiquer la dernière fois par mes remarques et la petite enquête que j'avais faite


XIX 22nd May 1963
: pXIX 170 to pXIX 179

NOTES

p225 & 226: Chapter XIX of Cormac Gallagher's translation. This passage refers both to Theodor Reik & the 'shofar'. Available here The Shofar (The Ram's Horn) : 1919 : Theodor Reik or LW.org/January 1919 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=501

XX 29th May 1963 : pXX 180 to pXX 186

XXI 5th June 1963 : pXXI 187 to pXXI 194

NOTES

Notes from the Reading Seminar VII Group on 5th January 2013 & 8th December 2012 (Seminar VII : 2nd & 9th December 1959 : p48) : 5th January 2013 : Julia Evans : See LW.org/January 2013 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=668

Preliminary notes from Seminar VII: 2nd & 9th December 1959 : p38 & p48 (Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis' intervention : meeting on 5th January 2013 & 8th December 2012 : 9th January 2013 : Julia Evans : See LW.org/January 2013 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=692

XXII 12th June 1963 : pXXII 195 to pXXII 205

p291 of Adrian Price's translation or pXXII 202-203 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : & p284 of Adrian Price's translation or pXXII 199 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : & p281 of Adrian Price's translation or pXXII 196 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : quoted in Towards Pipol 9, The unconscious and the brain, nothing in common, The argument by Yves Vanderveken : 22nd November 2019 : See LW.org/November 2019 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12289

XXIII 19th June 1963 : pXXIII 206 to p217

Adonis Huxley : Adonis and the Alphabet (U.S. title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) : 1956

XXIV 26th June 1963 : pXXIV 218 to pXXIV 227

REFERENCE

Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena – a Study of the First Not-Me Possession : 30th May 1951 (London) [1953] : Donald W. Winnicott : See LW.org/May 1951 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=11979

XXV 3rd July 1963 : pXXV 228 to pXXV 237

REFERENCES

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-pXXV 235 reference to Journées Provinciales, Annuale 1962-1963 – Introduction to the Seminar on Anguish (l'Angoisse not Anxiety) : 21st October 1962 : Jacques Lacan-see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19621021)

P203 Staferla Comme le disait un d'entre nous ‐ humoriste ‐ au cours d'une de nos « Journées Provinciales », que l'histoire est bien faite pour nous montrer au cinéma que n'importe quell « allemand irremplaçable »

PXXV 235 of Cormac Gallagher's translation As one of you, a humourist, said to me during one of our Journées provinciales, there is a story well designed to show us in the cinema that any "irreplaceable German" whatsoever – he was alluding to the adventure that is described for us in the film 'Hiroshima mon amour' – this irreplaceable German can find an immediate and perfectly valid substitute in the first Japanese encountered at the street corner.

p. 387 Du Seuil left out of 1st paragraph beginning with "Quant à nous,"

p. 335 Polity left out of 1st paragraph beginning with "As for us,"

**

Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena – a Study of the First Not-Me Possession : 30th May 1951 (London) [1953] : Donald W. Winnicott : See LW.org/May 1951 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=11979

The Concept of Dread (Anxiety/Anguish) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard : See LW.org/1844 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=317

Mourning and Melancholia : 1915 : Sigmund Freud : Published bilingual by www.Freud2Lacan.com or Penguin Freud Library (pfl): Volume 11 "On Metapsychology": p245-269. See also this site /3 Sigmund Freud (19150101 or Index of Sigmund Freud's texts)

NOTES

(p307-308, 309) Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits : 16th December 2011 : Julia Evans : See LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=209

pXXV 237 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : The function of the anxiety : 13th July 2006 (Rome) : François Leguil : See LW.org/July 2006 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12095

Melancholia, the Pain of Existence and Moral Cowardice : October1988 : Éric Laurent : See LW.org/October 1988 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=11933

References to be chased up:

'preying/praying mantis' 3rd July 1963 & there are others……..

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– Date of Sessions, Chapter number & Jacques-Alain Miller's (Editor) headings & subtitles: Reference to Adrian Price's translation :

For availability see beginning of post

INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE OF ANXIETY

– I. Anxiety in the Net of Signifiers : 14th November 1962: p3 to 15

Subtitles :The desire of the Other

Towards an orography of anxiety

Seriousness, care, expectation

Inhibition, impediment, embarrassment

Inhibition, emotion, turmoil

– II. Anxiety, Sign of Desire : 21stNovember 1962 : p16 to 28

An ideal of straightforwardness

Hagel and Lacan

The desire of the Other in five formulae

Division and its remainder

I desire you, even if I know it not

– III. From the Cosmos to the unheimliche: 28thNovember 1962 : p29 to 42

The specular and the signifier

From the world to the world's stage

Hamlet and the stage on the stage

Lévi-Strauss's serenity

Anything whatsoever in the blank of the phallus

– IV. Beyond Castration Anxiety : 5th December 1962 : p43 to 54

The object as a spare part

The Hoffmannian object

The object a postiche

The object-demand

The object that is not missing

– V. That Which Deceives : 12th December 1962 : p55 to 68

Pavlov, Goldstein and the Other's demand

Jones and the Other's jouissance

The traces of the subject

The cuts of the drive

Pascal and the vacuum experiment

– VI. That Which Deceives Not : 19th December 1962 : p69 to 82

One of Ferenczi's precious points

Anxiety is framed

Anxiety is not without object

From anxiety to action

On the demands of the God of the Jews

REVISION OF THE STATUS OF THE OBJECT

– VII. Not Without Having It: 9th January 1963 : p85 to 99

Physics

Linguistics

Sociology

Physiology

Topology

– VIII. The Cause of Desire : 16th January 1963 : p100 to 113

The object behind desire

The sadist's identification with the fetish object

The masochist's identification with the common object

The presence of real love in transference

The young homosexual woman, dropped

– IX. Passage à l'acte and Acting-out : 23rdJanuary 1963 : p114 to 130

Egoization

The natal cut

The jouissance of the symptom

The lies of the unconscious

Freud's passion

– X. On a Lack that is Irreducible to the Signifier : 30th January 1963 : p131 to 146

Differential topology of holes

A lack for which the symbol cannot compensate

The object in transference

Margaret Little and her capital R

Cut-interpretation

-Missing Session : 20th February 1963

P146 of Adrian Price's translation : On 20th February, the day I come back, because I'm going away for a while, could the two people present here whom I asked earlier take charge of the three articles I've just been speaking about by sharing out the roles as they see fit and adding on a third person for the third article, and might they not also see to it that this rostrum does not stay unoccupied for too long and occupy it in my stead if I'm not there, or with me in the audience if I do come back?

I believe I have their consent – I'm referring to Granoff and Perrier. So, the next appointment, to hear them, will be on 20 February, that is, exactly three weeks from now. Iin the event Lacan returned on 27 February.) [JE notes : The three probably are Piera Aulagnier-Spairani (formerly Castoriadis-Aulagnier), Wladimir Granoff & François Perrier]

– XI. Punctuations on Desire : 27th February 1963 : p147 to 155

From countertransference to the analyst's desire

Desire as a will to jouissance

Desire, from conflict to love

ANXIETY BETWEEN JOUISSANCE AND DESIRE

– XII. Anxiety, Signal of the Real : 6th March 1963 : p157 to 169

Chekhov's panic fears

Agatha and Lucy

Perversion and the Other's anxiety

The mamma and the deciduous object

From detumescence to castration

– XIII. Aphorisms on Love : 13thMarch 1963 : p170 to 181

Negation in Russian

Desire and the professor

The subject of jouissance

The ais not a signifier

Man and woman

Then 4 lines of Russian script

– XIV. Woman, Truer and More Real : 20thMarch 1963 : p182 to 196

Tiresias struck blind

The hole, the void, and the pot

Woman lacks nothing

Don Juan, a woman's dream

Lucia Tower and her desire

– XV. Men's Business : 27th March 1963 : p197 to 211

Lucia Tower and the Oedipal comedy

What lacks, men's business

What is ridiculously termed perversion

A vessel with neither inside nor outside

Circumcision, an insitution

THE FIVE FORMS OF THE OBJECT a

– XVI. Buddhas's Eyelids : 8th May 1963 : p213 to 229

The cuase, a syncope of the object

The certainty of anxiety

The Jews and the function of the remnant

Christian masochism

Man or woman?

– XVII. The Mouth and the Eye : 15th May 1963 : p230 to 242

The lips, the teeth, and the tongue

The nursling, parasite

The anxiety-point and the point of desire

Anxiety and orgasm

The scopic cancelling-out of castration

– XVIII. The Voice of Yahweh : 22nd May 1963 : p243 to 255

Reik and the use of the symbol

The sound of the shofar

May God remember

The function of the beauty spot

What regard us

– XIX. The Evanescent Phallus : 29th May 1963 : p256 to 266

The pedagogy of castration

Jouissance in the fantasy

The Wolf Man's defecation

Always too soon

The dead ends of desire

– XX. What Comes in Through the Ear : 5th June 1963 : p267 to 278

Deceptive phallic might

The infant's monologue

Isakower's prawn

The incorporation of the voice

The Gods ensnared in desire

– XXI. Piaget's Tap : 12th June 1963 : p279 to 293

The category of cause

Forming the symptom

A matter of understanding

Water and desires

The five levels in the constitution of the a

– XXII. From Anal to Ideal : 19th June 1963 : p294 to 309

The object's circular constitution

The origin of the cause

Jones and the Immaculate Conception

To love beyond the phallus

The desire of the gods

– XXIII. On a Circle that is Irreducible to a Point : 26th June 1963 : p310 to 323

On the yieldable object

On defence-desire

On the act and deeds

On the phallic hole and its stand-ins

Love and desire in the obsessional

– XXIV. From the a to the Names-of-the-Father : 3rd July 1963 : p324 to 337

The scopic masking of the object a

Birth as an intrusion of the Other

To separate and to hold back

Mourning, mania and melancholia

The voice, the father, the name, and love

– Note to the Text: : p339

Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor) writes : The reader will have noticed that in the first chapter (Seminar X : 14th November 1962 – p12 of Adrian Price's translation) Lacan calls out to his audience to confirm whether the word smagare exists in Italian and the reply he receives leads him to conclude that some doubt remains. On the typescript copy addressed to his daughter (Judith Miller) bearing a dedication dated 16th November 1962, thus two days after the first lesson, the following detail features in the margin: 'Here, I called out to Piera – who suggested this doubt to me – but since then I've checked things out and smagare does indeed carry the meaning that B. & W. (Bloch & von Wartburg) give it.'

An annotation in the margin identifies the author of the article Lacan had been expecting: 'This refers to a piece of work by Green on The Savage Mind '. André Green's review of Lévi-Strauss's book subsequently appeared in the journal Critique.

– Notes : p340

– Index : p341

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– Note about Sacha Nacht & Timeline

See also www.LacanianWorks.org, this site, /5 Authors A-Z (Nacht Sacha) OR Lacanian History

Further notes on Sacha Nacht What is concealed by the so-called "Cht" and why? : 9th March 2019 : Réginald Blanchet : See LW.org/March 2019 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12329

Relevant Session to be located:

The following reference was found on the internet as belonging to Sem X. Following a thorough search of Sem X, I became suspicious as it is nowhere… :

Sacha Nacht (1961): Presented to the 22nd International Psychoanalytic Conference in Edinburgh: July to August 1961: 'The curative factors in psychoanalysis'. Published in the International Journal of Psycho-analysis: Vol 43: 1963: p206 – 211. See The Curative Factors in Psycho-Analysis : July-August 1961 (Edinburgh) : Sacha Nacht : See LW.org/July 1961 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/1961/08/%EF%BF%BCthe-curative-factors-in-psycho-analysis-july-august-1961-edinburgh-sacha-nacht/

Possibly Seminar X : 12th December 1962 : pV 37 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : For that matter moreover, I was preceded in this by the inventor of psychoanalysis himself who was indeed, as far as I know, someone who was at the level of a direct experience, that of patients, of mental patients, of those especially that are called with a greater rigor since Freud, neurotics.

But after all, this would not be a reason for remaining any longer than necessary on an epistemological questioning, if the place of desire, the way in which in which it hollows itself out (se creuse), was not at every instant – at every instant in our therapeutic position – presentified for us through a problem, which is the most concrete one of all, that of not allowing ourselves to engage on a false path, of not responding to it in the wrong way, of not responding inexactly to it, at least of considering recognised a certain goal that we pursue and which is not so clear. I remember having provoked indignation in the sort of colleague who knows on occasion how to barricade himself behind some bombast or other of fine sentiments designed to reassure someone or other, to have provoked indignation by saying that in analysis a cure only came in a way as a bonus.

This was seen as some sort of disdain for the one that we are responsible for, the person who is suffering. I was speaking from a methodological point of view. It is quite certain that our justification as well as our duty is to ameliorate the position of the subject. And I claim that nothing is more uncertain in the field that we are in than the concept of a cure.

Is an analysis which ends with the entry of the male or female patient into the third order a cure, even if the subject finds himself improved as regards his symptoms, and in a certain way, a certain order that he has reconquered enunciates the most express reservations about the ways, now seen by him as perverse, through which we have made him pass in order to make him enter [12.12.62 V 38] the kingdom of heaven.

Possibly Seminar X : 30th January 1963 : pX 90 of Cormac Gallagher's translation : What I would simply like to designate here, is that in connection with this case which is favourable and, if you wish, chosen in a part of the field particularly favourable to this problematic, what is decisive in this factor of progress which consists essentially in introducing the function of the cut.

See Seminar IV : The Object Relation & Freudian Structures 1956-1957 : begins 21st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan or LW.org/November 1956 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=11980 for further reference to Sacha Nacht. A more up to date post may be available from this site, LW.ORG/November 1956

A Timeline for Jacques Lacan and Sacha Nacht

Further researches reveal the following (adapted from 'Chronology: p209 to 211 of Dany Nobus: 'Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis': Routledge: 2000):

1926, 4 November: creation of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), the first association of French psychoanalysts.

1934, November: Lacan becomes a candidate (membre adhérent) of the SPP.

1936, 3 August: Lacan attends the 14th Congress of the IPA at Marienbad (Máriánské Láznē, Czech Republic), where he presents 'Le stade du miroir'.

1938, December: Lacan finishes his analysis with Loewenstein and becomes a full member (membre titulaire) of the SPP.

1940, June: installation of the Vichy regime. The SPP suspends all its activities.

1946: the SPP resumes its activities.

1948: Lacan becomes a member of the Teaching Committee (Commission de l'Enseignement) of the SPP.

1949, 17 July: Lacan attends the 16th Congress of the IPA in Zurich, where he presents another paper on the mirror-stage.

1951: Lacan introduces sessions of variable length in his practice; this worries the other members of the SPP. During the following years he regularly explains his position without managing to convince his colleagues. Meanwhile, he gives a seminar on Freud's Dora-case at his house, …

1951, 2 May: 'Some reflections on the Ego', lecture at the British Psychoanalytic Society.

1951-1952: Seminar on Freud's case of the Wolf Man.

1952, Summer: Sacha Nacht (1901-1977), president of the SPP, presents his views on the organization of a new training institute (Institut de Psychanalyse).

1952, December: Nacht resigns as director of the Institute, and Lacan is elected new director ad interim.

1952-1953: Lacan's seminar on Freud's case of the Rat Man.

1953, 20 January: Lacan is elected president of the SPP. Creation of the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP) by Daniel Lagache (1903-1972), Françoise Dolto (1908-1988) and Juliette Favez-Boutonnier (1903-1994); Lacan joins soon after.

1953, 8 July: Lacan gives the opening lecture at the SFP on the symbolic, the imaginary and the real.

1955, July: the IPA rejects the SFP's request for affiliation.

1956, Winter: first issue of the journal La Psychanalyse, containing Lacan's 'Rome Discourse, 23 September 1953' and his translation of Heidegger's 'Logos' 1951.

1959, July: the SFP renews its request for affiliation to the IPA. Nomination of a committee of enquiry.

1961, August: the SFP is accepted as an IPA Study Group on the condition that Lacan and Dolto are progressively removed from their training positions.

1963, August: the IPA stipulates that the SFP will lose its status if Lacan continues to be involved in training matters.

1963, 19 November: a majority of SFP members decide to accept the IPA recommendation.

1963, 20 November: first and final session of Lacan's seminar on 'The Names-of-the-Father'.

1964, January: Lacan starts a seminar on the foundations of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure (Rue d'Ulm. Paris), where he lectures under the auspices of the École Pratique des Hautes Études, a post for which Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser have intervened on his behalf.

1964, 21 June: Lacan found the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).

1964, October: final issue (8) of La Psychanalyse.

1965, 19 January: dissolution of the SFP (end of extract)

So Lacan and Nacht have form, is the background for this reference. Nacht presents this text in 1961 just as steps are taken to remove Lacan from his training position. I will add to this when I have seen this text which precedes Lacan's Seminar X, The Anxiety or Dread, given 1962 to 1963.

OTHER TEXTS

Texts on Seminar X https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/category/works-in-progress/reading-seminar-x/

Citations

Many texts can be found on www.LacanianWorksExchange.net If not then the intention is to transfer all posts from LW.net to this website, www.LacanianWorks.org. Should any still be in the queue, then go to https://web.archive.org and type in lacanianworks.net – go to the calendar and pick a date -or go to https://web.archive.org/LacanianWorks.net or go to https://oldweb.today or contact Julia Evans.

The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan's Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts : 16th January 2012 : Julia Evans : See LW.org/5 Authors A-Z (Evans) or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https:/lacanianworks.net/?p=235

The function of the anxiety (13th July 2006 – Rome) : François Leguil : See LW.org/July 2006 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https:/lacanianworks.net/?p=12095

Anxiety Constituent and Constituted : (probably Paris) : November 2005 : Jacques-Alain Miller : See LW.org/November 2005 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https:/lacanianworks.net/?p=12102

On the False Usefulness of Anxiety and the Benefits of Working through it : October 2004 : François Leguil : See LW.org/October 2004 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12153

Relieve Anxiety? : December 2003 : Éric Laurent : See LW.org/December 2003 or https://web.archive.org/web/20221202231620/https:/lacanianworks.net/?p=12155