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'''Intersubjectivity''' refers to the "[[common sense|common-sense]]," shared meanings constructed by people in their interactions with each other and used as an everyday resource to interpret the meaning of elements of social and cultural life. [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstcfs/glossary.htm]
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=====Jacques Lacan=====
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When [[Lacan]] begins -- in 1953 -- to analyze in detail the function of [[speech]] in [[psychoanalysis]], he emphasizes  that [[speech]] is essentially an [[intersubjective]] [[process]].
  
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The French philopsopher Jean-Paul Sartre argued that in making choices in life we effectively make choices for all humans as what is chosen is always the better choice, and what is better for one is better for all. This is also called 'intersubjectivity'.
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<blockquote>"The allocution of the [[subject]] entails an allocutor" and therefore "the locutor is constituted in it as [[intersubjectivity]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 49</ref></blockquote>
  
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=====Language=====
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The term "[[intersubjectivity]]" thus possesses, at this point in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]], a positive [[value]], since it draws attention to the importance of [[language]] in [[psychoanalysis]] and emphasizes the fact that the [[unconscious]] is "[[intersubjectivity|transindividual]]."
  
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For [[Lacan]], the [[analytic]] experience is a dialogue on the symbolic place of full speech, an interaction between two subjective desires.
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=====Psychoanalysis=====
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The intersubjective relationship between the analysand and the analyst.
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[[Psychoanalysis]] is thus to be conceived in [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] rather than intrasubjective [[terms]].
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Psychoanalytic treatment as a symbolic interaction betwen two subjects.
 
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Referring again to Freud’s explanation of transference in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), Lacan reported in the former text that ‘transference…gave its name to the mainspring of the intersubjective link between analyst and analysand.'<ref>Lacan 1977g[1957]:170</ref>
 
  
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===Later Work===
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=====Reciprocity and Symmetry=====
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However, by 1960 the term "[[intersubjectivity]]" has come to acquire [[negative]] connotations for [[Lacan]].
  
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I am astounded that no-one has ever thought of objecting to me, given certain of the terms of my doctrine, that the transference alone is an objection to intersubjectivity. I even regret it, seeing that nothing is more true: it refutes it, it is its stumbling block.<ref>Lacan 1995b[1967]:4</ref>
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It is now associated, not with [[speech]] as such, but with the notions of reciprocity and symmetry that characterize the [[dual relationship]];<ref>{{S8}} p. 20</ref> that is, with the [[imaginary]] rather than with the [[symbolic]].
  
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[[Psychoanalysis]] is no longer to be conceived of in terms of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 20</ref>
  
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[[Lacan]] begins (in 1953) to analyze in detail the function of [[speech]] in [[psychoanalysis]].
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=====Transference=====
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Indeed, the [[experience]] of [[transference]] is precisely what undermines the [[notion]] of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>{{L}} (1967) "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Proposition du 9 octubre 1967 sur le psychanalyste de l'École]]," ''[[Scilicet]]'', no. 1 ([[1968]]) pp. 14-30</ref>
  
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[[Lacan]] emphasizes that [[speech]] is essentially an [[intersubjective]] process.
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"The allocution of the [[subject]] entails an allocutor" and therefore "the locutor is constituted in it as [[intersubjectivity]]."<ref>{{E}} p.49</ref>
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It is now associated, not with [[speech]] as such, but with the notions of reciprocity and symmetry that characterize the [[dual relationship]];<ref>{{S8}} p.20</ref> that is, with the [[imaginary]] rather than with the [[symbolic]].
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[[Psychoanalysis]] is no longer to be conceived of in terms of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>{{S8}} p.20</ref>
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Indeed, the experience of [[transference]] is precisely what undermines the notion of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>Lacan. 1967</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 00:48, 25 May 2019

French: intersubjectivité
Jacques Lacan
Early Work
Speech

When Lacan begins -- in 1953 -- to analyze in detail the function of speech in psychoanalysis, he emphasizes that speech is essentially an intersubjective process.

"The allocution of the subject entails an allocutor" and therefore "the locutor is constituted in it as intersubjectivity."[1]

Language

The term "intersubjectivity" thus possesses, at this point in Lacan's work, a positive value, since it draws attention to the importance of language in psychoanalysis and emphasizes the fact that the unconscious is "transindividual."

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is thus to be conceived in intersubjective rather than intrasubjective terms.

Later Work

Reciprocity and Symmetry

However, by 1960 the term "intersubjectivity" has come to acquire negative connotations for Lacan.

It is now associated, not with speech as such, but with the notions of reciprocity and symmetry that characterize the dual relationship;[2] that is, with the imaginary rather than with the symbolic.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is no longer to be conceived of in terms of intersubjectivity.[3]

Transference

Indeed, the experience of transference is precisely what undermines the notion of intersubjectivity.[4]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p. 49
  2. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Le Séminaire. Livre VIII. Le transfert, 1960-61. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Paris: Seuil, 1991. p. 20
  3. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Le Séminaire. Livre VIII. Le transfert, 1960-61. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Paris: Seuil, 1991. p. 20
  4. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. (1967) "Proposition du 9 octubre 1967 sur le psychanalyste de l'École," Scilicet, no. 1 (1968) pp. 14-30


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