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Whereas Freud never systematically spoke on =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] asserts that [[ethics|ethical thought]] "is at the ethics centre of psychoanalysisour [[work]] as [[analysts]], Lacan devoted "<ref>{{S7}} p. 38</ref> and a [[whole]] year of his pivotal seventh [[seminar (in ]] is devoted to discussing the articulation of [[ethics]] and [[psychoanalysis ]].<ref>{{L}} ''[[Seminar VI|Le Séminaire. Livre VI. L'éthique de la psychanalyse, 1959-1960) to precisely this topic60]]''. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1986 [''[[Seminar VI|The Seminar VII: . Book VI. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis goes to some lengths to stress , 1959-60]]''. Trans. Dennis Porter. [[London]]: Routledge, 1992].</ref> =====Psychoanalytic Treatment=====Simplifying matters somewhat, it could be said that [[ethics|ethical problems]] converge in [[psychoanalytic treatment]] from two sides: * the side of the [[analysand]] and * the side of the [[analyst]]. =====The Analysand=====On the side of the [[analysand]] is the problem of [[guilt]] and the pathogenic [[nature]] of [[civilized]] [[morality]].  =====Civilized Morality=====In his earlier work, [[Freud]] posited a basic [[conflict]] between the [[demand]]s of "[[ethics|civilized morality]]" and the essentially [[moral|amoral]] [[sexual]] [[drive]]s of the position on [[subject]]. When [[ethics Lacan |morality]] gains the upper hand in this conflict, and the [[drives]] are too strong to be [[sublimation|sublimated]], [[sexuality]] is concerned either expressed in [[perversion|perverse forms]] or [[repression|repressed]], the latter leading to develop [[neurosis]]. In [[Freud]]'s view, "[[ethics|civilized morality]]" is concerned solely with at the clinical practice root of psychoanalysis[[neurosis|nervous illness]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness]]." 1908d. Its central topic[[SE]] IX, 179</ref> =====Sense of Guilt==========Superego=====[[Freud]] further developed his [[ideas]] on the pathogenic nature of [[ethics|morality]] in line with what we examined in Part 1 concerning his [[theory]] of an [[unconscious]] [[sense]] of [[guilt]], [[superego]], an [[superego|interior moral agency]] which becomes more cruel to the extent that the intersubjective structuration [[ego]] submits to its [[demand]]s.<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of subjective desire Sigmund Freud|The Ego and identitythe Id]]''. 1923b. [[SE]] XIX, 3.</ref>). =====The Analyst=====On the side of the [[analyst]] is the desire problem of how to deal with the analyst as that Other addressed by [[ethics|pathogenic morality]] and [[unconscious]] guilt of the patient [[analysand]], and implicated also with the whole range of [[ethics|ethical problems]] that may arise in [[psychoanalytic treatment]]. =====Sense of Guilt=====Firstly, how is the [[analyst]] to respond to the way [[analysand]]'s/sense of [[guilt]]? Certainly not by telling the [[analysand]] that he structures is not really [[guilty]], or by attempting "to soften, blunt or attenuate" hissense of [[guilt]],<ref>{{S7}} p. 3</her desire through ref> or by [[treatment|analyzing]] it away as a [[neurotic]] [[illusion]].  On the transference. Neverthelesscontrary, it remains [[Lacan]] argues that Lacan develops his position through explicit engagement with Aristotlethe [[analyst]] must take the [[analysand]]'s Nichomachean Ethicssense of [[guilt]] seriously, for at bottom whenever the [[analysand]] feels [[guilty]] it is because he has, as well as Kant’s practical writingsat some point, and the texts of Marquis de Sadegiven way on his [[desire]]. Moreover =====Superego=====Secondly, Lacanhow is the [[analyst]] to respond to the [[ethics|pathogenic morality]] which [[acts]] via the [[superego]]?  [[Freud]]'s views of [[ethics accord with his metapsychological premises|morality]] as a pathogenic force might seem to imply that the [[analyst]] simply has to [[help]] the [[analysand]] free himself from [[moral]] constraints. However, examined which such an [[interpretation]] may find some support in Part 1[[Freud]]'s earlier work, <ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|'Civilized' Sexual Morality and his theorisation Modern Nervous Illness]]." 1908d. [[SE]] IX, 179</ref> [[Lacan]] is firmly opposed to such a view of [[Freud]], preferring the more [[pessimistic]] [[Freud]] of language''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]''<ref>{{F}} ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]''. 1930a. [[SE]] XXI, examined 59.</ref> and [[stating]] categorically that "Freud was in Part 2no way a progressive."<ref>{{S7}} p. 183</ref>  [[Psychoanalysis]], then, is not simply a libertine ethos. =====Psychoanalytic Treatment=====This seems to [[present]] the [[analyst]] with a moral dilemma.  On the one hand, he cannot simply align himself with [[ethics|civilised morality]], since this [[ethics|morality]] is pathogenic. In  On the [[other]] hand, nor can he simply adopt an opposing libertine approach, since this Part too remains within the field of [[morality]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 3-4</ref>  The rule of [[neutrality]] may seem to offer the analyst a way out of this dilemma, but in fact it does not, for [[Lacan]] points out that there is no such [[thing]] as an [[ethics|ethically neutral position]].  The [[analyst]] cannot avoid, accordinglythen, I want having to present Lacan's understanding face [[ethics|ethical questions]]. =====Neutral Ethical Position=====An [[ethics|ethical position]] is implicit in every way of directing [[psychoanalytic treatment]], whether this is admitted or not by the [[analyst]].  The [[ethics as |ethical position]] of the [[analyst]] is most clearly revealed by the way that he formulates the [[end of analysis|goal of the treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 207</ref>  For example the formulations of [[ego-psychology]] [[about]] the [[adaptation]] of the [[ego]] to [[reality]] imply a sophisticated [[ethics|normative ethics]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 207</ref>  It is in opposition to this [[ethics|ethical position ]] that [[Lacan]] sets out to formulate his own [[ethics|analytic ethic]]. =====Psychoanalytic Ethics=====The [[ethics|analytic ethic]] that [[Lacan]] formulates is an [[ethics|ethic]] which relates [[act]]ion to [[desire]].  [[Lacan]] summarizes it in the question "Have you acted in conformity with the desire thatis in you?"<ref>{{S7}} p. 314</ref>.  He contrasts this [[ethics|ethic]] with the "[[ethics|traditional ethics]]"<ref>{{S7}} p. 314</ref> of [[Aristotle]], [[Kant]] and other [[philosophy|moral philosophers]] on several grounds. =====Traditional Ethics==========Good=====Firstly, [[ethics|traditional ethics]] revolves around the the [[concept]] of the [[ethics|Good]], proposing different "[[ethics|goods]]" which all compete for the [[position]] of the [[ethics|Sover­eign Good]].  The [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethic]], disavowals notwithstandinghowever, can be read sees the [[ethics|Good]] as an obstacle in the path of [[desire]]; thus in [[psychoanalysis]] "a radical [[repudiation]] of a consistent postcertain [[ideal]] of the [[good]] is necessary."<ref>{{S7}} p. 230</ref>  The [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethic]] rejects all ideals, including ideals of "[[happiness]]" and "health"; and the fact that [[ego-Kantian philosophy psychology]] has embraced these ideals bars it from claiming to be a [[form]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<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=====Secondly, [[ethics|traditional ethics]] has always tended to link the [[ethics|good]] to [[pleasure]]; [[ethics|moral thought]] has "developed along the paths of an essentially hedonistic problematic. Part 3 is divided into three sections"<ref>{{S7}} p. 221</ref>  The first two sections develop further Lacan's metapsychological [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethic]], however, cannot take such an approach because [[treatment|psychoanalytic experience]] has revealed the duplicity of [[pleasure principle|pleasure]]; there is a [[limit]] to [[pleasure principle|pleasure]] and philosophical tenets, when this is transgressed, [[pleasure principle|pleasure]] becomes [[jouissance|pain]]. Section i ====="Service of Goods"=====Thirdly, [[ethics|traditional ethics]] revolves around "the service of goods"<ref>{{S7}} p. involves 314</ref> which puts work and a further elaboration safe, ordered [[existence]] before questions of [[desire]]; it tells [[people]] to make their [[desire]]s wait.<ref>{{S7}} p. 315</ref> The [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethic]], on the other hand, forces the [[subject]] to confront the relation between his [[act]]ions and his [[desire]] in [[time|immediacy]] of the Lacanian conception [[time|present]]. =====Psychoanalytic Theory=====After his 1959-60 [[seminar]] on [[ethics]], [[Lacan]] continues to locate [[ethics|ethical questions]] at the heart of [[psychoanalytic theory]].  He [[interpretation|interprets]] the 'master signifiers'soll'' in [[Freud]]'s famous phrase ''Wo es war, soll Ich werden'' ("Where id was, there ego shall be")<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis]]''. Section ii1933a: [[SE]] XXII, 80</ref> as an [[ethics|ethical duty]],<ref>{{E}} p. involves an exposition of Lacan’s notion 128</ref> and argues that the status of the 'fundamental fantasy'[[unconscious]] is not [[ontological]] but [[ethical]].<ref>{{S11}} p. Section iii33</ref>. then examines Lacan’s later notion  =====Speech=====In the 1970s he shifts the emphasis of ‘traversing [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethics]] from the fantasy’ as question of [[act]]ing ("Have you acted in accordance with your desire?") to the basis question of his ethical position[[speech]]; it now becomes an [[ethics|ethic]] of "[[speaking]] well" (''l'éthique du Bien-[[dire]]''.<ref>{{L}} 1973a: 65</ref>  However, this is more a [[difference]] of emphasis than an opposition, since for [[Lacan]] to [[speak]] well is in itself an [[act]]. ==See Also=={{See}}{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Practice]][[Category:Ethics]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC__