Text/Jacques Lacan/Seminars/Caracas (English)
Overture to the First International Encounter of the Freudian Field, Caracas, 12 July 1980.
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Author: Jacques Lacan |
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On July 12, 1980, in Caracas, a meeting on Jacques Lacan's teaching and on psychoanalysis in Latin America took place. Lacan said a few words, in which he alluded to the dissolution, talked about "my family" and announced the creation of "my Freudian cause." The importance of the meeting lay in his presence, which guaranteed its legitimacy, at a time of dissensions. L'Ane. the journal of the E.C.P., devoted its first issue to Lacan, to his ecoles, and to the events of 1980. It even included a summary of a discussion with Catherine Millot about death. "It is up to you to be Lacanians. As far as I am concerned, I am a Freudian." Still, Lacan clearly marked the difference between the two theories. |
I haven’t got itchy feet.
The proof being that I’ve left it till my eightieth year before coming to Argentina.
I’ve come over because I was told that it was the right place to summon my pupils from Latin America.
Are you my pupils? It’s not something I can
