TIMELINE
The second version of this paper was published in a special issue of Les Études Philosophiques (1956) commemorating the hundred year anniversary of Freud’s birth. The first version only came out as an offprint. : P384 of Bruce Fink’s translation and is included as an Appendix on p408.
Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan (January 1956)
Published in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan, p384-411 of Bruce Fink’s translation, W. W. Norton 2001, Further details at www.Lacanianworks.org, this site, /4 Jacques Lacan (19660101)
In French : Situation de la psychanalyse et formation du psychanalyste en 1956’: Écrits (1966) p 459-486. See Pas-Tout Lacan.
Cited by Jacques Lacan
– Session of Seminar XV : 19th June 1968 : Jacques Lacan, see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19680619)
19.6.68 p7 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : There is a word that I brought in here a few years ago, into this dialectic. It is the word truth. …
Who? The I that is speaking? This piece, in truth a prosopopoeia[iii], one of these Enthusiastic games that I happened to allow myself to articulate for the centenary of (302) Freud[iv], and at Vienna. It was rather a scream of the order of what Münch[v] put so well into a celebrated engraving, this twisted mouth in which we see arising the sublime annihilation of a whole landscape.
[iii] From Wikipedia, August 2026, A prosopopoeia (Ancient Greek: προσωποποιία, /prɒsoʊpoʊˈpiːə/) is a rhetorical device in which a non-human element speaks or is spoken to as a human. The term derives from the Greek words prósopon (transl. face, person) and poiéin (transl. to make, to do. Prosopopoeiae are used mostly to give another perspective on the action being described.
[iv] The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956 : 1956 : Jacques Lacan. Also in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19560101) [This quote is one of several possibles]
p391 of Bruce Fink’s translation, Thus I will say that Freud’s discovery is the truth that the truth never loses its rights, and that, although it may hide its claims even in the domain destined to the immediacy of instincts, its register alone allows us to conceptualize the inextinguishable duration of desire, a feature of the unconscious which is hardly the least paradoxical, even though Freud never gives it up.
[v] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
Artist Edvard Munch, Year 1893; 133 years ago, Type Oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard, Movement Proto-Expressionism, Dimensions 91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in × 28.9 in), Location National Museum and Munch Museum, Oslo
The Scream is an art composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik (‘Scream’), and the German title under which it was first exhibited is Der Schrei der Natur (‘The Scream of Nature’). The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in art, seen as representing a profound experience of existential dread related to the human condition. Munch’s work, including The Scream, had a formative influence on the Expressionist movement.[1]
Munch recalled that he had been out for a walk at sunset when suddenly the setting sun’s light turned the clouds “a blood red”. He sensed an “infinite scream passing through nature”. Scholars have located the spot along a fjord path overlooking Oslo and have suggested various explanations for the unnaturally orange sky, ranging from the effects of a volcanic eruption to a psychological reaction by Munch to his sister’s commitment at a nearby lunatic asylum.
-Quote from Jaques Lacan in Founding Act : 21st June 1964 : Jacques Lacan, see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19640621 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
Founding Act, Before reading it (Founding Act, June 1964), I underline that it has to be heard against the background of a reading, to be done or re-done, of my article: ‘Situation de la psychanalyse et formation du psychanalyste en 1956’. (Pages 459-486 of my Ecrits.)
CITATION
-If a Tree Were to Fall on an Island Where There Was No Psychoanalyst: On the Ethical Status of Sound : 25th May 2022 (LRO 346) : Yaron Gilat, p471 of French publication (1966), p394 of Bruce Fink’s translation of this text. Available at https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/if-a-tree-were-to-fall-on-an-island-where-there-was-no-psychoanalyst-on-the-ethical-status-of-sound/ or see this site /5 Other authors A-Z (Gilat)
-Discourses that kill (LRO 106) : 22nd November 2018 : Thomas Svolos (see this site /5 Other Authors A-Z or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Svolos) cites p401 of Bruce Fink’s translation.
Svolos, – ‘(see too here the remarkable conclusion of Lacan’s early text on “Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty” for an earlier formulation of this concept), …’
Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism : March 1945 : Jacques Lacan. Also in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19450301 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts) p18-19 of Bruce Fink & Marc Silver’s translation, [For full quote see this site /5 Author A-Z (Svolos or Index of Authors’ texts)], But it suffices to extend the sophism’s proof by recurrence to see that it can be logically applied to an unlimited number of subjects,[Lacan’s 1966 footnote 4] it being posited that the attribute “negative” can only come into play in the case of a number equal to the number of subjects minus one. Lacan’s 1966 footnote 5] But temporal objectivation is more difficult to conceptualize as the collectivity grows, seeming to pose an obstacle to a collective logic with which one could complete classical logic.
Footnote 4 – see /5 Author A-Z (Svolos (22nd November 2018) or Index of Authors’ texts)],
Footnote 5 Concerning the condition of this minus one in the attribute, cf, the psychoanalytic function of the One-extra [l’Un-en-plus] in the subject of psychoanalysis, p480 in Écrits, Seuil, 1966.
[The reference here is to Lacan’s “Situation of Psychoanalysis and Training of the Psychoanalyst in 1956”, now in English translation by Bruce Fink]
see The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956 : 1956 : Jacques Lacan, this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19560101)
From Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19661001 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
p400 of Bruce Fink’s translation of this text: In a quest for knowledge, a certain refusal on the scale of being, beyond the object, is the feeling that most solidly ties the troop together: this feeling is knowledge in a pathetic form; people commune in it without communicating, and it is called hatred.
P401 of Bruce Fink’s translation : Here we see the function of the “One Extra” [un en Plus], but we also see that it must be “Just a One” [Un Sans Plus], for every “One More” [Un Encore] would be “One Too Many” [Un De Trop], making all the number twos fall back into a presumption that remains without remission, it being known to be irremediable.
-The Proposition of 9th October 1967 – Lacan’s Introduction.
In the first paragraph of Proposition of 9th October 1967 on the psychoanalyst of the School : Jacques Lacan (See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19671009), Jacques Lacan advises you :
‘Before reading it, I underline that it has to be heard against the background of a reading, to be done or re-done, of my article (p384-411 of my Écrits) – as translated by Cormac Gallagher).