Changes

* ''[[Seminar II|Le Séminaire. Livre II. Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse, 1954-55]]''. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. Paris: Seuil, 1978 ["[[Seminar II|The Seminar. Book II. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-55]]." Trans. Sylvana Tomaselli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988].

The [[Seminars|second seminar]] is a study of [[Freud]]'s ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'' - a central text throughout [[Lacan]]'s career.

This [[seminar]] also contains an early short version of ''[[The Purloined Letter]]'' paper and some rather strange reflections on language and cybernetics.

[[Lacan]] deliberates on the distinction made in his first seminar between [[Seminar II|discourse analysis]] and the [[Seminar II|analysis of the ego]], both in relation to [[psychoanalytic theory]] and [[practice]].

However, for a consciousness to perceive another consciousness, the [[symbolic]] [[order]] must intervene on the system determined by the image of the ego, as a dimension of ‘’[[re-connaissance]]’’.

In "[[The Dream of Irma's Injection]]" the most tragic moment occurs in the confrontation with the ‘’Real’’.

With Lacan in Freud's ‘’Wo Es war, soll Ich werden’’, ‘’Es’’ is the subject. It knows him or doesn't. The further, more exacting insight, is It speaks or doesn't. At the end of analysis, it is It who must be called on to speak, and to enter in relation with real Others. Where ‘’S’’ was, there the ‘’Ich’’ should be.

{{See}}

* [http://www.ecole-lacanienne.net/stenos/seminaireI/1954.01.13.pdf 13 janvier 1954]

* [http://www.nosubject.com/Seminars All]

{{Also}}

[[Category:Works]]

[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]

__NOTOC__