Presentation at the 1st Scientific Conference of the Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi (in formation), on May 21st 2000, of which the theme was : “The pathologies of laws and norms.”
Published
– http://www.amp-nls.org/page/gb/60/the-turin-theory-of-the-subject-of-the-school
– Psychoanalytic Notebooks, Number 33, The Real and the Social Bond, June 2019, p87-112
Translated by Heather Menzies & Vincent Dachy
Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z (Miller)
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References used by Jacques-Alain Miller
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-I said we would pass on to practice. Let’s see what Lacan says at the moment when he founds his School in 1964, this Freudian School of Paris from which proceeds our own, the Italian School in formation.
See The Founding Act : 21st June 1964 : Jacques Lacan. See also, Note for the Year Book : 28th February 1971 : Jacques Lacan at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19640621 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s text)
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-A community came out of Freud’s desire which took the form of a Society, the analytic Society, of which the bedrock is the savage horde described in “ Totem and Taboo ”.
Here one must be Hegelian, as Lacan himself was, as any reasonable being is, up to a point.
See Totem and Taboo : 4th June 1913 [1912-1913] : Sigmund Freud, SE XIII p 1-162, at this site /3 Sigmund Freud (19130604 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
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The School is a moment in the objective Spirit of psychoanalysis. If you do not believe in it, if the hypothesis does not interest you, do not enter a School, it’s no use to you. Lacan, at the moment when he invited his School to pronounce itself by a vote on his « Proposition of October 9th 1967 on the psychoanalyst of the School », wrote that it had to be supposed that the spirit of psychoanalysis was blowing among the members of this Assembly.
See Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School : Jacques Lacan at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19671009 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
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-Massimo Recalcati speaks very well of the inhumanity of the law in his work for this Conference, page 136. The inhuman law is all law, the law is structurally inhuman because it ignores the particular, and if there are judges, it is in order to humanise it.
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-But with us Kant is interpreted by Sade, and we know that the Name of the Father is only a mask of the superego, that the universal is in the service of the will to jouissance. We learn it as well in remembering who inspires Kant, namely the genial paranoiac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the beautiful fantasy of the general will did not take long to reveal a gluttony, a ferocity without limit.
See Kant with Sade : April 1963 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19630401 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
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-A world without a judge, where the law would have no interpreter where the universalising inhumanity of the law would be applied without mediation in relation to the particular, would not be a Kantian world, but a world of Kafka. Those who heard Mauricio Mazzotti yesterday evening at the ordinary Assembly, had a glimpse of the stratification of the law, underlined at this Conference by Éric Laurent, of its maze, of its labyrinthine character, of the number of stops to be made at its different specialists, who are in agreement, who are not in agreement. To say it in one word, impossible to reduce to the « for all x » the impossible of the sexual relation. The flashing formula of Focchi sums it up in relation to the United States : « The law becomes a Kamasutra »
Probably the table of sexuation, 13th March 1973, pVIII 1 Cormac Gallagher’s translation, see Seminar XX Encore (1972-1973) : from 21st November 1972 : Jacques Lacan on this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19721121 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
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-As Spinoza says, « part of my happiness comes from the fact that others understand what I have understood »,
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-Let us look no further for the theme of our next Conference : « The moment of conclusion ».
It is the title of one of Lacan’s very last seminars.
Seminar XXV The Moment to Conclude (1977-1978) : from 15th November 1977 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19771115)
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Citations
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The Cartel and the Desire of the School : 2nd October 2021 (London) : Joanne Conway. See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Conway) refers to
-Conway : Via his invention, Lacan institutes “a collective formation”3 that paradoxically operates, as Miller names it, as a “lonely crowd”4 of solitudes,
F/n 3. Miller, J.-A. (2010/2019). “The Turin theory of the subject of the School”, Psychoanalytical Notebooks n° 33, The real and the social bond, p. 96.
F/n 4. Miller, J.-A. (2010/2019), “The Turin theory …”, op. cit., p. 99.
-Conway : Desire is interpretation. Miller also evokes Lacan’s opening declaration in The Founding Act10 “[…] as alone as I have always been in my relation to the psychoanalytic cause […]”. Here, says Miller, Lacan places centre stage the solitude “[…] of a subject in relation to a cause to be defended and promoted”11. [See above]
F/n 10. Lacan, “The Founding Act”, op.cit. Lacan, J. (1964). “The Founding Act”. See Founding Act : 21st June 1964 : Jacques Lacan, on this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19640621)
F/n 11. Miller, J.-A. (May 2000), “The Turin theory …”, op. cit., 33, p. 96.
-Conway : Rather what is founded is a collective formation of solitudes, whose singular desires revolve around and have a relation to an ideal, an ideal that is the psychoanalytic cause. Miller is clear that this ideal must operate in order to sustain the community of the School. However Lacan’s interpretation in respect of subjective solitude and the analytic cause, “sends each one back to the relation that each one has with the Master signifier of the Ideal beneath which he situates himself”12.
F/n12. Ibidem. See The Turin Theory of the Subject of the School : 21st May 2000 (Turin) : Jacques-Alain Miller on this site /5 Authors A-Z (Miller)
Conway : In closing, I would like to refer to a particular statement of Miller’s in the same text. Miller formulates that the School is a subject that can and must be interpreted. He also states that “[a] School in formation is a dynamic unit […]”13
F/n 13. Ibidem, p. 89. See The Turin Theory of the Subject of the School : 21st May 2000 (Turin) : Jacques-Alain Miller on this site /5 Authors A-Z (Miller)
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Related texts
Éric Laurent : Thoughts about the current forms of the impossible to teach : 21st September 2000. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent)
Éric Laurent : The Real and the Group. : 2000 See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent or Index of other Authors’ texts)
Éric Laurent : Guiding Principles for Any Psychoanalytic Act: 16th July 2006 (Rome). See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent or Index of other Authors’ texts)