L`objet de la psychanalyse

L'objetdelapsychanalyse
AUTRES ÉCRITS pages 219-220
L'objetdelapsychanalyse
COMPTE RENDU DU SÉMINAIRE 1965-1966
Leséminairedecetteannées'estoccupé,
suivantsaligne,delafonctionlongtemps
repéréedansl'expériencepsychanalytique
autitredelarelationdited'objet.
The object of psychoanalysis
REPORT FROM THE SEMINAR 1965-1966
[Seminar XIII]
The seminar this year year dealt with, following its line, the function that had long been noticed in psychoanalytical experience under the heading of the so‐called object relation.
Onyprofessequ'elledominepourlesujet
People profess that it [object relation] analysablesarelationauréel,etlesobjets
dominates for the analysable subject his oralouanalysontpromus,auxdépens
relation to the real, and the oral and anal d'autres,dontlestatutpourtantmanifeste,y objects are pushed to the fore, at the expense demeureincertain.
of others, whose status, though manifest, remains uncertain there.
C'estquesilespremiersreposent
It’s that, if the former rest directly on the directementsurlarelationdela
relation to demand, quite suitable for demande,bienpropiceàl'intervention
corrective intervention, the others ask for a corrective,lesautresexigentunethéorie
more complex theory, since there is no pluscomplexe,puisquen'ypeutêtre
misrecognizing there a division of the subject, méconnueunedivisiondusujet,impossible which is impossible to reduce solely through àréduireparlesseulseffortsdelabonne
the efforts of good intention : since it is the intention:étantladivisionmêmedontse
very division with which desire is supported.
supporteledésir.
Cesautresobjets,nommémentleregardet
These other objects, namely the look and the lavoix(sinouslaissonsàvenirl'objetenjeu voice (if we leave aside for the moment the danslacastration),fontcorpsaveccette
object in play in castration) are of a piece with divisiondusujetetenprésentifientdansle that division of the subject and make present champmêmeduperçulapartieélidée
in the very field of the perceived the elided commeproprementlibidinale.Commetels, part as properly libidinal. As such they push ilsfontreculerl'appréciationdelapratique, back the appreciation of the practice, that qu'intimideleurrecouvrementparla
their covering intimidates by the specular relationspéculaire,aveclesidentifications
relation with the identification of the ego that dumoiqu'onyveutrespecter.
one wants to respect there.
Cerappelsuffitàmotiverquenousayons
This reminder is enough to motivate that we insistédepréférencesurlapulsionscopique have preferred to insist on the scopic drive etsursonobjetimmanent:leregard
and on its immanent object: the look.
Nousavonsdonnélatopologiequipermet
We gave the topology which allows [one] to derétablirlaprésencedupercipienslui‐
re‐establish the presence of the percipiens mêmedanslechampoùilestpourtant
perceptible,quandilnel'estmêmequetrop
dansleseffetsdelapulsion(exhibition
etvoyeurisme).
himself in the field where he is however perceptible, when he is only even too perceptible in the effects of the drive (exhibitionism, voyeurism).
Cettetopologiequis'inscritdansla
géométrieprojectiveetlessurface[s]de
l’analysissitus,n'estpasàprendrecommeil
enestdesmodèlesoptiqueschezFreud,au
rangdemétaphore,maisbienpour
représenterlastructureelle‐même.Elle
rendcomptedel'impuretéduperceptum
scopique,enretrouvantcequenousavions
crupouvoirindiquerdelaprésencedu
percipiens,irrécusabledelamarquequ'elle
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This topology, which is inscribed in projective geometry, and the surfaces of analysis situs1 is not to be taken, as is normal with the optic models in Freud, as a metaphor, but indeed as representing the structure itself. It [topology] accounts for the impurity of the scopic perceptum , by finding again what we had thought to be able to indicate of the presence of the percipiens , incontestable from the brand that it 219
emportedusignifiant,quandellesemontre
monnayéedanslephénomène
jamaisconçudelavoixpsychotique
takes away from the signifier, when it [topology] shows itself to be paid out in the never conceived phenomenon of the psychotic voice.
L'exigenceabsolue,encesdeuxpoints,
The absolute demand, in these two points, for d'unethéoriedudésirnousreporteàla
a theory of desire brings us back to the rectificationdesfléchissementsdela
rectification of the waverings of practice, to pratique,àl'autocritiquenécessairedela
the necessary self‐criticism of the analyst’s positiondel'analyste,quivaauxrisques
position, which includes the risks attached to attachésàsapropresubjectivation,s'ilveut his own subjectivation, if he wants to respond répondrehonnêtementfût‐ceseulementàla honestly, were it simply to the demand. demande.
1
The term used by Henri Poincaré in a series of papers begun in 1895, which later became “topology”.