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| [[{{Y}}style="width:100px;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|1967 - 1968| style="width:100px;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"| [[Seminar XV]]| style="width:300px;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"| ''[[Seminar XV|L'acte psychanalytique]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XV|The Psychoanalytic Act]]</big>

[[Image:Lacan-Jacques-Le-Seminaire-N-1967-1968---L-acte-Psychanalytique---Notes-De-Cours-Livre-1013426985_L.jpg|border|350px|right]] Since <i>La logique du [[fantasme]]</i>, where he states that there is not "[[sexual]] act," [[Lacan]] questions the [[difference]] between the act, <i>l'acte</i> and a mere [[action]], <i>agir</i>. To make [[love]] would be an action, <i>un agir</i>, and to get [[married]] an act, <i>un acte</i>, because there is a commitment and a [[recognition]], which entail [[repetition]] and the inscription in the [[Other]]. The [[signifier]] will appear soon: the [[absence]] of [[contradiction]] between Saint John's "In the beginning was the [[Word]]," and [[Goethe]]'s "In the beginning was the action." Lacan then asserts "the [[irreducibility]] of the sexual act to any truthful relation." Since love is itself purely [[narcissistic]], a [[social]] pact is what remains of a possible rapport between the [[sexes]].<br> As to the different types of [[acts]] in [[psychoanalysis]], there is the founding act: before, the effects of the [[unconscious]] existed, but nobody knew that they existed. There is the entrance into [[analysis]] and the fact of becoming an [[analyst]], which are decisions and commitments. On the side of the [[analysand]], there are slips and failures, which lead Lacan to give an <i>Éloge de la connerie</i>, Praise of Folly. In analysis it is almost [[impossible]] to answer simply to the [[injunction]] "render unto [[truth]] the things that are truth's and unto folly the things that are folly's," because the two overlap and then one finds "the folly of truth even more often than the truth of folly." The <i>passage à l'acte</i> and the "[[acting out]]" are activities that, although they fill a distressing [[hole]], reproduce the [[past]] instead of [[remembering]] it in [[words]]. On the side of the analyst, "[[outside]] the manipulation of [[transference]], there is no [[psychoanalytic]] act." In [[order]] for the analysand to move to the function of analyst, the latter - while pretending to be the upholder of the [[subject]]-supposed-to-[[know]] - must accept [[being]] "reduced to the function of [[cause]] of a [[process]] in which the [[subject-supposed-to-know]] is undone." Moreover, in the end the analyst must accept to be "[[nothing]] more than a waste of the operation represented by the <i>[[objet]] a</i>," which will produce an effect of truth. The [[position]] of the analyst is untenable, and this is why he opposes "the most violent misconstruction, <i>mé[[connaissance]]</i>, as to the [[analytic]] act itself." Besides, the analysand who experiences <i>désêtre</i> discovers, when becoming an analyst, that he is [[forced]] to restore for [[another]] the subject-supposed-to-know. The transmission would thus be compleed, very different from the <i>[[passe]]</i> itself. The [[psychoanalytic act]], a "setting into act of the subject" and a "setting into act of the unconscious," is like a [[tragedy]] where the hero falls in the end as a piece of trash.<br> "In the beginning of psychoanalysis is transference," without any [[intersubjectivity]], because between the two partners the subject-supposed-to-know acts as a [[third]], as "the pivot from where everything that goes on in transference is articulated." This pivot is the signifier introduced in the [[discourse]] instituted by it, a [[formation]] as though detached from the analysand, which has nothing to do with the analyst's person. It is "a [[chain]] of letters that leads the not-known to [[frame]] [[knowledge]]," which concerns [[desire]]. The [[Graph]] of Desire still guides the analysis but an [[identity]] is asserted between the [[matheme]] of the subject-supposed-to-know and the <i>[[agalma]]</i> of [[Plato]]'s <i>The [[Symposium]]</i>, which presents "the pure angle of the subject as the free rapport to the signifier, a signifier from which both the desire of knowledge and the desire of the Other are isolated."<br>Lacan wants to establish, as to the passage from the analysand to the analyst, "an eaquation whose constant is the <i>agalma</i>" (this term being a sort of compromise between <i>[[objet a]]</i> and the [[phallus]]). Once "the desire that, in its functionning, uphelds the analysand has been resolved, the analysand no longer wants to remove the possibility of such [[desire,]] the [[remainder]] which, insofar as it determines his [[division]], makes him fall from his [[fantasy]] and destitutes him as subject." Lacan interprets the depressive position often noticed as the end of the analysis in [[terms]] of <i>désêtre</i> and "[[subjective]] destitution. "The subject sees its assurance sink, a [[self]]-assurance that comes from the fantasy in which everybody's opening onto the [[real]] is constituted." The subject realizes that the grasp of desire is nothing other than that of a <i>désêtre</i>. "In this <i>désêtre</i> what is unveiled is the nonessential [[nature]] of the subject-supposed-to-know; the analyst-to-be is dedicated to the <i>agalma</i> of the [[essence]] of desire, even if it means that the analyst-to-be has to be reduced to an ordinary signifier, since the subject is the signifier of the pure signifying relation." Does going through the fantasy, then, mean going toward the [[drive]] or toward a confrontation with the signifier? Thus Lacan answers: "The being of desire meets the being of knowledge to be reborn from their [[knot]] in a [[strip]] formed by the only side on which only one [[lack]] is inscribed, that which upholds the <i>agalma</i>." The <i>agalma</i> becomes the signifier of the bar that is put on the Other (A); the gap of (- <font face="Symbol" size="3">F</font>) opens in the Other; and the (<i>a</i>) falls from the Other.<br> Slavoj [[Zizek]] argues that "here we find the inescapable deadlock that defines the position of the loved one: the other sees something in me and wants something from me, but I cannot give him what I do not possess - or as Lacan puts it, there is no rapport between what the loved one possesses and what the loving one [[lacks]]. The only way for the loved one to escape this deadlock is to stretch out his hand toward the loving one and to [[return]] love, that is to [[exchange]], in a [[metaphorical]] gesture, his status as the loved one for the status of the loving one. This [[reversal]] designates the point of [[subjectivization]]: the [[object]] of love changes into the subject the [[moment]] it answers the call of love. And it is only by way of this reversal that a genuine love emerges: I am truly in love not when I am simply fascinated by the <i>agalma</i> in the other, but when I [[experience]] the [[other, the]] object of love, as frail and lost, as [[lacking]] 'it', and my love none the less survives this [[loss]]." ==French== {| class="wikitable floatright" width="250px" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" align="center" bgcolor="ffffff" style="float:right; margin-left: 10px;line-height:2.0em; padding-left:30px; background:#ffffff; text-align:center;"| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="200px" height"30" style="padding-left:10px" | Date| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50px" style="padding-left:10px" | PDF|- | bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 15 novembre 1967 | [https://mega.nz/#!XWBQwajI!p90WGQTNWlmv4vjQZ8KK7o9mC1_nh-TwLRXPZwq6CPM link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 22 novembre 1967 | [https://mega.nz/#!7aIiGIzK!BTr3aXHH37nH9BFhCNkFTgP2wkojh_bgy_hvU3VaytU link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 29 novembre 1967 | [https://mega.nz/#!PeB2RCYC!mY9IcOFxs-NPyn7qcyHxk423DIXgI9RYxoGOdhZS8qM link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 06 décembre 1967 | [https://mega.nz/#!rHYWxIxJ!-08CqXOZeUSz3qlKepTz9hM79xK4MIvRDybnbo0OOgQ link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 10 janvier 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!TCZEnQJR!Y1-TRS3oWDg3mH-dxCaw_8C43QNS8VmR2QR2svI2HOQ link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 17 janvier 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!KXYigCya!nlgiRN5nvzJjl-EJGLAS5k2ZoE9A1PDHw_qG4RkrRak link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 24 janvier 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!XGJG3Qpb!hX0t1bDoW25_uCBhVeFxvT_qBD1mkpYBm88Hau5SdeU link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 31 janvier 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!GKBWlajY!Q_M0oxwDquIqk-J05HuXQH_NLdLHXqAjwKVvYxlU2EQ link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 07 février 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!HSAinQAC!RREYWdLYUT0dJPEKuIQZHdMiTG6407rUhdSa2RNe5Ug link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 21 février 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!SCZWSIYQ!Pt0NQfR-XICE_xqg1K8EdnTHGU8oew2Tpmhqtb3QXeA link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 28 février 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!6OJG3IRA!vTPC1udhZWr-EAwGDM9EMkhs1vWYxqHf1y9o2-Mp0qw link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 06 mars 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!eXQixS7J!q-DL4vzZJAM7ELZWFDWyCf7LM2TZ9hvdN-fA3laOTY8 link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 13 mars 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!2TYgwapT!s_dO4AJSBv-04FqdVprzeo0yB_vt07nZr7I58TCIusk link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 20 mars 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!SSY0waxY!Czd0Gfnir85ohMgcuyYWRGhh4r3kAznmQShw-5x7c4Y link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 27 mars 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!vbRkASLK!9tVxZSAdhmVp1cu2H2oszgbggz23G34v1Jqg71c0Tb8 link]|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 08 mai 1968 | [https://mega.nz/#!GPZCWQSY!fEOAZeWtDqI4HcCAQCsESCkxYZ7VxdFsnhJ_2V6f55w link]|}French versions of [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan's]] [[Seminars]] Source: http://ecole-lacanienne.net* [[:File:Seminaire_15.pdf|Download]]<BR>{{Center|<pdf width="500px" height="600px">File:Seminaire_15.pdf</pdf>}} <!-- 1967-1968<b>Le séminaire, Livre XV: L'acte psychanalytique.</b><br>[[French]]: unpublished.<br>[[English]]: unpublished. --> [[Category:Seminars]] [[Category:Jacques Lacan]]__NOTOC____NOAUTOLINKS__