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1964 (4 pp.)-DU "TRIES" DE [[Freud|FREUD ]] ET DU DESIR DU [[Psychanalyste|PSYCHANALYSTE ]] (ON FREUD'S "TRIES" AND ON THE DESIRE OF THE [[Psychoanalyst|PSYCHOANALYST]])�ITALY 1964-[[France|FRANCE ]] 1966
How should [[Trieb]] be translated? One [[knows]] the controversy: "[[instinct]]" or "[[drive]]"? In 1938, [[Lacan]] had already rejected the term "instinct" in favor of "[[complex]]" (10), and he also [[thought]] at the [[time]] that he could isolate "a pure [[primitive]] drive" (11). Later, in his [[graphs]] of [[desire]] (36) he linked the drive to the [[formula]]: a 0 D (the drive is related to the [[demand]] and not to the [[need]]). However, it was not until the [[seminar]] on L'[[Angoisse]] (52) that he began to address this [[concept]] more closely.
The problem of [[translation]] is above all a problem of definition. This sum�mary of his talk and of his comments in Rome at the Colloquium organized by Professor Castelli on "[[Technique]] and Casuistry" foreshadows [[The Seminar|the seminar ]] to come on Les Quatre [[Concepts]] fondamentaux (55), one of these four con�cepts [[being]] the drive. Lacan even says in a note in [[Ecrits]] that he "avoided giving too quickly [his own theorizations] to a wide and uncontrollable audience. "
He reaffirms the [[difference]] between [[libido]] and [[sexual]] instinct: "its reduc�tion, up to a point, to [[male]] desire warns us of the difference," he says. Except for this [[statement]], the [[text]] is a confirmation of his convictions (some would say of his [[ideology]]): the [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] allows man to escape the sexual service of the [[mother]]; Venus is proscribed from our [[world]]; [[theology]] has de�cayed before a prevailing [[monotheism]]; [[castration]] protects one from [[incest]] with the mother as well as from [[homosexuality]], as the law protects one from [[jouissance]], which is on the side of the [[Thing]]; desire institutes i.tself in the assumption of castration and [[lack]]; as for the [[woman]], "she must lose what she does not have," etc. Such themes are familar. What [[about]] the [[analyst]]'s de�sire? This desire is the one that ultimately, for [[good]] or for bad, operates in [[psychoanalysis]].
Let us conclude with an indiscreet question: why did Lacan talk about a
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"[[maternal]] instinct" in Les Propos directifs (45) and, in an obsessive way. about a "[[death]] instinct" above all?
