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[[Image:Sem1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|'''Le séminaire, Livre I: Les écrits techniques de Freud''']]
* ''Le Séminaireséminaire, Livre I: Les écrits techniques de Freud''. (1953-1954) Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1973. English version: * ''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954''. Ed. J.-A. Miller. Trans. J. Forrester. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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[[Lacan]]'s first [[seminar]] -- open to the public -- is held at [[Sainte-Anne Hospital]] soon after the establishment of the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]).
This [[seminar]] is explicitly addressed to analysts, as it concerns questions of psychoanalytic technique, those of [[resistance]], [[defence]], [[repression]] and [[transference]].
[[Lacan]] cuts in the study of [[Freud]] by dint of his theory on the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]].
The focal point of the discussion is the direction of the [[cure]].
Through the case histories of Freud, Klein, Kris and Balint, the debate elucidates on the convergence of [[psychoanalysis]], [[philosophy]], [[theology]], [[linguistics]] and [[game theory]].
In keeping with this heterogeneous approach, Lacan will further appeal to the [[science]] of [[optics]] to systematize his analyses of the specular relation.
After his [[schema]] of the [[''inverted bouquet]] '' the [[mirror stage]] becomes part of the [[topography]] of the [[Imaginary]].
As to the ‘’''[[méconnaissance]]’’ '' that characterizes the [[ego]], it is associated with ‘’''[[Verneinung]]’’ '' (‘’dénégation’’''dénégation''): "...everyday speech runs against failure of recognition, ‘’méconnaissance’’''méconnaissance'', which is the source of ‘’Verneinung’’''Verneinung''."
He closes the seminar pondering on the role of the [[analyst]]: "...if the [[subject]] commits himself to searching after [[truth]] as such, it is because he places himself in the dimension of ignorance, what analysts call readiness to the [[transference]]. The analyst's ignorance is also worth of consideration. He doesn't have to guide the subject to knowledge, but on to the paths by which access to this knowledge is gained. Psychoanalysis is a dialectics, an art of conversation."
In a spoken intervention (Appendix), Jean Hyppolite comments on Freud's ‘’Verneinung’’ and suggests its translation as ‘’dénégation’’ instead of ‘’négation’’.
To this reshaping of the Imaginary by the Symbolic, he opposes the intersection of the Symbolic and the Real without mediation of the Imaginary, which would be the characteristic of psychosis.
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