Towards the XIV Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysts, 22-25 February 2024 (Zoom), “All the world is mad”, see https://congresamp2024.world/tout-le-monde-est-fou/
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Subject: Eric Laurent vers le XIVe congrès de l’AMP Tout le monde est fou – Español, Português, English, Italiano
Date: 8 February 2024 at 09:35:24 GMT
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References

-Laurent: In his aphorism, Lacan first evokes the dream, then the delusion: “Freud considered that nothing is but a dream, and that everyone is mad, that is to say, delusional.”

See Transfer to Saint Denis? Lacan for Vincennes! There are four discourses : 22nd October 1978 : Jacques Lacan. At www.LacanianWorks.org /4 Jacques Lacan

P1 of by Adrian Price with Russell Grigg’s translation, www.Freud2Lacan.com, How does one go about teaching what cannot be taught? This is something Freud ventured into. He thought that all is but a dream and that everyone (if one can say such a thing), that everyone is mad, that is, delusional.

-Laurent: “Learn to read Descartes as a nightmare.”

Lacan, J., The Seminar, Book XXI, “Les non-dupes errent”, Lesson of January 15th 1974. See Seminar XXI Les non-dupes errant (1973-1974) : from 13th November 1973 : Jacques Lacan at this site (4 Jacques Lacan or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)

15th January 1974, p9-10 15.1.74 Draft 2, translated by Cormac Gallagher, www.LacaninIreland.com, It is not a matter here of a thought, since qua thought it is, as I might say, still virginal; and moreover thought, with respect to what is supported by this advancing of the three, of the three as knot, and as nothing else, thought is only what I earlier called what is cogitated, namely, a black dream, the one in which commonly, you dwell. For if there is something that analytic experience initiates you into, it is that what is closest to lived experience, to lived experience as such, is the nightmare. There is nothing that is more of an obstacle to thought, even to thought that claims to be clear and distinct: learn to read Descartes as a nightmare, that will make you progress a little. How can you even not notice that this guy who says to himself: I think therefore I am, is a bad dream?