Éric Laurent is a psychoanalyst and member of the Ecole de la cause freudienne
Published
PN 40 The Love Event Spring 2023 p71-80
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P71, This subject, produced by a horrific story, has many doctors, judges, educators in her life. [1] She made many appeals for help, and it can be said, grosso modo, that she is basically doing her own thing. She has ideas about everything.
References
-P72 Let’s start from the Freudian hypothesis “the unconscious repeats”.
Suggest, ‘Das Unbewusste’ – The unconscious : 1915e : Sigmund Freud, SE XIV p159-215. The final section of Freud’s paper on the The Unconscious seems to have roots in his early monograph ’On Aphasia’ (1891). Published bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com / Freud: The Metapsychological Papers, Papers on Technique and others (8. The Unconscious : Parts 1-2, Parts 3-5, Parts 6-7, Appendices A-B)
-p74 Behind the paranoiac crime of passion, there is the fundamental crime, …
Motives of Paranoiac Crime : December 1933 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan
P74 Behind the paranoiac crime of passion, there is the fundamental crime, infanticide, an enigma that arouses passion [passionne] by its indecipherability. Infanticides question civilisation. The last infanticide that has aroused passion in France is the death of little Gregory. Everyone gave their opinion, Marguerite Duras in particular.
Suggest, Homage to Marguerite Duras, on ‘Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein’ : December 1965 : Jacques Lacan. Also in Autres Écrits : 2001 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan
-p75 Just as in feminine love, the crime of passion is the central point, so in maternal love it is infanticide. Women do not have perversion in the male sense, on the other hand, they have infanticide. They do not have perversion because they have children, said Lacan to condense the problem.
Help in tracing this would be appreciated – some suggestions :
Jacques Lacan’s analysis of Little Hans in 20th March 1957, Seminar IV. Expected publication date of the Seminar IV translation group’s translation is March 2024. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19561121)
The Meaning (or Signification) of the Phallus (Munich) : 9th May 1958 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19580509) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan
Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminin : 1929. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Rivière) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Rivière)
-p76 What makes the subject that by killing the other kills himself, thus finding a certain pacification? This is the question that Lacan wanted to resolve in his thesis. After the passage to the act, whether the subject actually kills himself, whether he commits suicide after the crime or not, the subject goes through a moment of death.
On Paranoid Psychosis in its relationships with the personality, followed by first writings on Paranoia (Aimée) : 7th July 1932 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19320101) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan.
-p76 Beyond infanticide, the history of great psychotic crimes is always fascinating for civilization. For example, that of the Papin sisters, of which every decade a play is made, a film, a work of art, etc. At the time, it had aroused the passion of the society of the 1930s. Lacan had written “in the heat of the moment” a contribution on “‘The crime of the Papin sisters” to enlighten opinion.
The Problem of Style and the Psychiatric Conception of Paranoiac Forms of Experience : June 1933 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan
On the Problem of Hallucinations : 7/8 October 1933 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan
Motives of Paranoiac Crime : December 1933 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan
Articles from Le Minotaure BY JACQUES LACAN
Minotaure 1, June 1933. Original publication available at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan /142: Cover, table of contents, and Lacan’s article, Le problème du style as it first appeared in Minotaure no. 1 (June 1, 1933)
Minotaure 3-4, 12th December 1933. Original publication available at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan /143 Cover, table of contents, and Lacan’s article, Motifs du Crime Paranoïaque
-p78 In this sense, this subject makes us hear in a very particular way what “dead love” means to which Lacan refers us in the psychotic passion.
See 30th May 1956 Seminar III, see Seminar III The Psychoses (1955-1956) : from 16th November 1955 : Jacques Lacan at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19551116), p231-232 of Russell Grigg’s translation of III : In the Middle Ages a distinction was drawn between what was called the physical theory and the ecstatic theory of love. This is the way the question of the subject’s relation to the absolute Other was raised. Let’s say that in order to understand the psychoses we have to make the love relation with the Other qua radically Other, and the mirror situation, everything of the order of the imaginary, animus and anima, which is located according to the sexes at one or other of the places, overlap in our little schema.
Where does the difference between someone who is psychotic and someone who isn’t come from? It comes from the fact that for the psychotic a love relation that abolishes him as subject is possible insofar as it allows a radical heterogeneity of the Other. But this love is also a dead love.
It may seem to you that it’s a curious and unusual detour to resort to a medieval theory of love in order to introduce the question of psychosis. It is, however, impossible to conceive the nature of madness otherwise.
Related Text
Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment – ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’ – Thread and Needle : 6th January 2004 : Pierre Naveau. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Naveau)