English translation:
By Cormac Gallagher from unedited, tape, transcriptions
Published by http://www.LacaninIreland.com /Seminars
In French:
Séminaire XV : L’Acte Psychanalytique : 1967-1968 : Jacques Lacan, direct transcription from tapes, available at http://staferla.free.fr /Séminaire 15
Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire livre XV, L’Acte psychanalytique, Texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller : Seuil & Le Champ Freudien (9th February 2024)
Note
Elizabeth Roudinesco notes*, 12th February 2024, that this seminar takes place against a backdrop of trouble in the SPP (Société Psychoanalytique de Paris) about psychoanalytic practice & training methods which were put in place. Also the student strikes took place in April and May 1968. Further, it is noted that the editor, Jacques-Alain Miller has omitted the session of 31st January 1968, during which, in Lacan’s absence, his main disciples discussed the content of his teaching, and the very short one of 8th May 1968, where he expressed solidarity with the strike order launched by the National Union of Higher Education. Confrontation with other disciplines, mathematics, linguistics, etc, through their proponents is how Lacan developed his position. Throughout Seminar IV, Jacques Lacan is confronting Sacha Nacht & his followers, in their absence and this follows the split of 1953. These confrontations are missing.
This omission of other’s interventions is not new. They are also missing from Seminar VII, XVII & XX and maybe others. However, they appear to be included in Seminars I, II, III, XI, & XXIII. Therefore, these omissions are not a new editorial decision, but the continuance of a tradition of reducing Jacques Lacan’s working method to a textbook.
Julia Evans 18th February 2024
*« L’Acte psychanalytique » : Jacques Lacan surpris par Mai 68. Jacques-Alain Miller livre son édition du Livre XV du séminaire du psychanalyste, qui traite de la relation entre maître et disciple – à point pour les événements de mai 1968. Par Elisabeth Roudinesco (Historienne et collaboratrice du « Monde des livres »). Publié le 12 février 2024 à 08h00, modifié le 12 février 2024 à 14h03 : https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2024/02/12/l-acte-psychanalytique-jacques-lacan-surpris-par-mai-68_6216083_3260.html
Dates of Sessions:
15th November 1967 Chapter I
22nd November 1967 Chapter II
29th November 1967 Chapter III
6th December 1967 Chapter IV
10th January 1968 Chapter V
17th January 1968 Chapter VI
24th January 1968 Chapter VII
31st January 1968 Chapter VIII
Note: Jacques Lacan did not attend this “seminar”. Among those who participated in the discussion were: Charles Melman, Ginette Michaud, Jean Oury, Paul Lemoine, François Tosquelles, Jacques Rudrauf, Xavier Audouard, Irène Roublef, Eugénie Lemoine-Luccioni (Jennie), Themouraz Abdoucheli, Claude Conté, Jean Ayme, M. Noyes (not traceable on the internet, though name given p58 Staferla & in Cormac Gallagher’s), Lucien Mélèse, Claude Dorgeuille, Félix Guattari, Jacques Nassif, M. Morali (untraceable name given in Staferla & Cormac Gallagher’s) and others.
7th February 1968 Chapter IX
21st February 1968 Chapter X
28th February 1968 Chapter XI (truncated)
6th March 1968 Chapter XII
13th March 1968 Chapter XIII
20th March 1968 Chapter XIV
27th March 1968 Chapter XV
8th & 15th May 1968
Notes from Lacan’s intervention during the strike by the S. N. E. S. (the union of teachers in higher education)
P1 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : He then evokes his 1966 text “Science and Truth” * as having contemporary relevance for what is not simply unruliness,”
P15.5.68 2 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : Let us try call that without insisting too heavily on the fact that after all I myself highlighted that somewhere in my Écrits there is a text called Science and Truth* which is not completely out of season, since it has a little idea that one cannot reduce what is happening to what we might call the effects of a turbulence that is more or less everywhere.
* See Seminar XIII- Science & Truth : 1st December 1965 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19651201 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
& see Moment of Truth-the Newman Reference : 26th November 1995 : Philip Boxer at this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Boxer or Index of other Authors’ texts)
The 8th May is omitted from the official, edited, 2024 version.
19th June 1968
Annex I – Lecture of 19th June 1968
P19.6.68 7 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : To this relation of the subject to the Other, psychoanalysis contributes a radically new dimension. It is more than what I called just now, called just now, like that, a discovery. A discovery still preserves something anecdotal about. This is a profound modification of the whole relationship.
There is a word that I brought in here a few years ago, into this dialectic. It is the word truth. And then, in truth, before articulating it precisely as I did here on a particular day, the perfectly logical mark of the article Truth and Science*, in my Écrits bears witness to, I had given to the word another function, in an article called The Freudian Things**, where one can red these terms: ‘Me, the truth, I speak.’
* See Seminar XIII- Science & Truth : 1st December 1965 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19651201 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
**See The Freudian Thing or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis : 7th November 1955 (Vienna) : Jacques Lacan See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19551107 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
Annex II Logics of Phantasy
Logics of Phantasy : Frege’s logic & Jacques Lacan’s logic
Annex 3 : Lacan’s summary of the seminar of 1967-1968 for the Year Book of the École Pratique des Hautes Études : Sent on the 10th June 1969. This was republished in Autres Ecrits : 2001. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (20010101 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
Citations
-Performative Jouissance and Analytic Act [1] : 6th October 2022 : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent), states “Lacan authorises a rereading of Aristotle, which he quotes and comments on explicitly in the Seminar XV”
-Lacan with D. W. Winnicott : 25th June 2011 (Dublin) : Joanne Conway, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Conway or Index of Authors)
Seminar XV 29th November 1967 :
-pIII 11 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted in The Logic and Surprises of Supervision at the Time of the Parlêtre : 7th March 2015 (Italy) : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent or Index of Author’s Texts)
-Probably III p5 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted in The Paradoxes of Transference : 15th February 2014 (New York) : Miquel Bassols, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Bassols or Index of Authors)
Seminar XV 31st January 1968
-P28 of The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment’ : July 2010 : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent or Index of by other Authors) quotes this session. This is incorrect it is 13th March 1968 – see below.
Seminar XV 7th February 1968
-pIX 6, 7 & 8 & 10 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, quoted in Performative Jouissance and Analytic Act [1] : 6th October 2022 : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent)
Seminar XV 13th March 1968
-pXIII 6-8 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation quoted at P28 of The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment’ : July 2010 : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent or Index other Authors’ texts). P28 of Laurent – The analyst, in the treatment, marks the place of this hole and veils it: a→$. The logical operation in the treatment cannot be reduced to a writing of the function of jouissance like a sort of psychoanalytic Begriffshrift[28]. [28] Lacan, J, “Lesson of 31 January 1968” in Le séminaire, livre XV, L’acte psychanalytique, (1967-8), unpublished. This reference is incorrect. See Seminar XV 13th March 1968, pXIII 6-8 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation.