Work presented to the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) in December 1949.
Published,
Maurice Bouvet : « Incidences thérapeutiques de la prise de conscience de l’envie du pénis dans la névrose obsessionnelle féminine », Revue française de psychanalyse, 1950, Avril-Juin n° 2, p. 215-243 ; ou Œuvres , t.1, p. 49-73, Paris, Payot, 1967.
Translated by Richard Klein,
as ‘Therapeutic implications of awareness of penis envy in female obsessive-compulsive neurosis by Maurice Bouvet’,
Available
www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (243. Incidences thérapeutiques de la prise de conscience de l’envie du pénis dans la névrose obsessionnelle feminine (Re: Lacan Seminar V Les formations de l’inconscient: Juin 4, 1958))
Cited by Jacques Lacan
-Seminar V 4th June 1958
See Seminar V The Formations of the Unconscious (1957-1958) : from 6th November 1957 : Jacques Lacan, on this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19571106 or 19580604)
P316-317 (24) of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, But it is enough that he should be satisfied on the plane of demand in order that confusion should be irremediably established between these two planes: the one which I call the line of transference, and the one which I call the line of suggestion.
We are therefore, through our presence, and in so far as we listen to the patient, what tends to make the line of transference become confused with the line of demand, we are therefore harmful in principle, and that is what that means.
Regression is our way, but it is a descending way, it is a way which with respect to the end of our action, does not designate its goal, but the detour, and it is this that we must continually keep in mind. Thank God there is something which prevents this irremediable confusion from being established again, that there is a whole technique of analysis which has no other goal and no other end than to establish this confusion, and that is the reason that it ends up in a transference neurosis, and that you afterwards see it written in a journal called La Revue Française de Psychanalyse, that in order to resolve what is called the question of transference, there is only one thing to do: sit the patient down, show him the nice things, show him what is beautiful in the outside world, and to tell him to leave your office slowly, in order not to disturb the flies; and this by a great technician!
Fortunately there is between the two lines which oppose this confusion, between the line of transference and the line of suggestion, there is between the two precisely desire and all that, they are such obvious things, that the hypnotists, let us say simply those who are interested in hypnosis, know very well, that no suggestion, however successful, completely takes over the subject.
What resists? Very precisely this: I would not even say one or other desire of the subject, it is obvious, but very essentially the following: it is the desire to have one’s desire. It is still more obvious, but that is not a reason for not saying it.
P321 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, Here is a third form of identification which is quite essential. Since I do not know where it would lead us, because it always takes longer than one thinks, to get into a reading of the observation of the article which appeared in the Reveue Française de Psychanalyse – which contains my report on aggressivity in psychoanalysis – (July/September 1948, observation 2 of the article called: “Importance de l’aspect homosexuel du transfert”. I am asking you to read it. I will come back to it, but I want in this connection to articulate today the point where I designate the technical error of analysing the current homosexual transference in an obsessional neurosis.