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==Traditional Ethics==
After his 1959-60 [[seminar]] on ethics]], [[Lacan]] continues to locate [[ethics|ethical questions]] at the heart of [[psychoanalytic theory]].
He [[interpretation|interprets]] the ''soll'' in [[Freud]]'s famous phrase ''Wo es war, soll Ich werden'' (This system of rules attributes values to behaviors by judging them to "Where id was, there ego shall be good or bad according to their intrinsic moral qualities or their concrete social consequences")<ref>{{F}} 1933a: [[SE]] XXII, 80</ref> as an [[ethics|ethical duty]]<ref>{{E}} p. 128), and argues that the status of the [[unconscious]] is not ontological but [[ethical]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 33</ref>.
[[Lacan]] rejects In the "traditional ethics]] of [[Aristotle]], [[Kant]] and other [[moral]] [[philosophers]]. Traditional ethics revolves around 1970s he shifts the concept emphasis of the [[Good]].Traditional ethics is concerned with the [[Sovereign Good]]. The [[|psychoanalyticethics]] [[ethic]] sees the [[Good]] is an obstacle in from the path question of [[desireact]]. In [[psychoanalysis]], "'a radical repudiation of a certain ideal of the good is necessary."<ref></ref> The [[psychoanalytic]] [[ethic]] rejects all ideals ing (of "happiness" and "healthHave you acted in accordance with your desire?").<ref>{{S7}} p.219</ref> The [[desire of the analyst]] cannot therefore be the [[desire]] to 'do good' or 'to cure'.<ref>{{S7}} p.218</ref> ==Pleasure== Traditional ethics tends to link the [[good]] to [[pleasure]]. [[Moral]] [[thought]] has "developed along the paths question of an essentially hedonistic problematic."<ref>{{S7}} p.221</ref> The psychoanalytic ethic, however, cannot take such an approach because psychoanalytic experience has revealed the duplicity of pleasure; there is a limit to pleasure and, when this is transgressed, pleasure becomes pain  ==The Service of Goods== Traditional ethics revolves around "the service of goods."<ref>{{S7}} p.314</ref> Traditional ethics puts work and a safe, ordered [[existencespeech]] before questions of desire; it tells people to make their desires wait.<ref>{{S7}} p.315</ref> The now becomes an [[psychoanalytic ethics|ethic]] forces the [[subject]] to confront the relation between his actions and his [[desire]] in immediacy of the present. ==The Ethics of Psychoanalysis==An ethical position is implicit in every way of directing [[psychoanalytic treatment]]. The ethical position of the [[analyst]] is most clearly revealed by the way that he formulates the [[goal]] of the [[treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p.207</ref>  For example the formulations of [[ego"speaking well" (''l'éthique du Bien-psychology]] about the [[adaptation]] of the [[ego]] to [[reality]] imply a normative [[ethics]]dire''.<ref>{{S7L}} p.3021973a: 65</ref>  It is in opposition to this ethical position that [[Lacan]] sets out to formulate his own [[analytic]] [[ethic]]. The [[analytic]] [[ethic]] that [[Lacan]] formulates is an [[ethic]] which relates [[action]] to [[desire]].
However, this is more a difference of emphasis than an opposition, since for [[Lacan]] to speak well is in itself an [[act]].
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