the choice of sex - Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ
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the choice of sex - Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ
Scientific Committee Annie-Claude Sortant-Delanoë (Responsible for the Study Days) Nicolas Bendrihen Nadine Cordova-Naïtali Françoise Hurstel Marie-Annick Le Port-Gobert Anne Lopez Hervé de Saint-Affrique JOURNÉES DE L’ÉCOLE DE PSYCHANALYSE DES FORUMS DU CHAMP LACANIEN PARIS 29-30 NOVEMBER 2014 Organizing committee Sophie Henry (Responsible for the organization) Frédérique Decoin-Vargas Martine Delorme Adrien Klajnman Esther Morere–Diderot Lina Velez EPFCL-FRANCE 118 rue d’Assas 75006 Paris France THE CHOICE OF SEX « THE SEXED BEING DERIVES HIS AUTHORIZATION ONLY FROM HIMSELF » J. LACAN Information 01 56 24 22 56 www.champlacanien.net e-mail : [email protected] www.champlacanienfrance.net Formation continue no 11 75 411 93 75 MAISON DE LA CHIMIE 28 BIS RUE SAINT DOMINIQUE 75007 PARIS-FRANCE INFORMATION 01 56 24 22 56 EPFCL-France 118 rue d’Assas 75 006 Paris www.champlacanienfrance.net Formation continue no 11754119375 THE CHOICE OF SEX 1/ The choice of sex is a topical question. Everyone defends their firm belief that sex is either one extreme or the other : just a matter of nature or just a social construction. Is there not sometimes a risk of confusing choice of sex with choice of object, that is to say, confusing sexuation with sexuality ? During these study days we will endeavour to approach this question in a whole different way : the choice of sex comes from the unconscious. But also “The analyst derives his authorization only from himself”… and from a few others, 3 / Lacan told us in 1967 ; adding in 1974: “The sexed being derives his authorization only from himself”… and from a few others. 4 / From Freud’s “anatomy is destiny” 2 / to Lacan’s “they have a choice”, what does psychoanalysis say about it today ? For psychoanalysis, the choice of the subject, regarding their sex, is their choice of jouissance : Whether it is wholly within phallic jouissance – organized by language, the partner of which is object a about which we know something via the fantasy ; or whether it is not wholly in this mode, but in a beyond, in a supplementary other jouissance beyond language, outside signifiers, and with a remainder to say yet impossible to say… but which sometimes seeps into the speech of the analysand. This choice can appear as an unfathomable decision… And yet… What are the repercussions of this choice in neurosis and in psychosis ? What clinical experiences will we bring into the conversation ? What theoretical references will we summon in order to throw light on the modalities of unconscious choice, determined by identifications ? What links is Lacan encouraging us to make between the analyst and the sexed being, seven years later ? Do they both have a particular responsibility towards their act ? What is the relation between the choice of sex beyond the phallus and the position of the analyst – as hollowed out object a, extricated from phallic jouissance ? And how do all these different approaches allow us to understand the current changing attitudes ? So many questions that we will attempt to consider during these study days, and which we should not cease to consider in a school of psychoanalysis, even and above all if “Our not-all is discordance”. 5 / Annie-Claude Sortant-Delanoë Translated by Esther Faye 1/ In English, we have two words, “gender” and “sex”, which are economically conveyed in French by the one word, “le sexe”. Both “gender” and “sex” are implied in the context of the present argument, but I have chosen to translate “le sexe” as “sex” rather than as “gender”. 2/ FREUD S. (1992) La vie sexuelle. Paris, PUF, p. 121 3/ LACAN, J. (1995) Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School. Analysis 6, p. 1. 4/ LACAN, J. (1973–1974) Les non-dupes errent, Lesson 11. 5/ LACAN, J. (2011) Le séminaire, livre XIX… ou pire. Paris, Seuil, p. 22.