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− | [[Lacan]] states that in <i>Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety</i> (1926, S.E. XX) [[Freud]] speaks of everything but [[anxiety]] just "to leave the emptiness in which there is anxiety." This [[affect]], related to the [[structure]] of the [[subject]], is not [[repressed]] but adrift; only the [[signifier]]s that anchor it are [[repressed]]. For [[Lacan]] [[anxiety]], <i>[[angoisse]]</i>, is not without an [[object]], but this [[object]] is unknown. Since [[anxiety]] is linked to [[desire]], and [[fantasy]] is the support of [[desire]], the starting point is the <i>[[fantasme]]</i> elaborated in the [[Graph of Desire]] in <i>[[Les formations de l'inconscient]]</i>: [[Image:lacansem1b1.gif|12px]]<><i>a</i> ([[Subject]] [[bar]]red by the [[signifier]]/relation to/<i>[[objet a]]</i>, which is the [[object of desire]], the [[imaginary]] [[part-object]], an element imagined as separable from the rest of the [[body]]). He then proceeds to define <i>[[objet a]]</i> which relates [[anxiety]] with [[desire]]. | + | [[Lacan]] states that in <i>Inhibitions, [[Symptoms]] and Anxiety</i> (1926, S.E. XX) [[Freud]] speaks of everything but [[anxiety]] just "to leave the emptiness in which there is anxiety." This [[affect]], related to the [[structure]] of the [[subject]], is not [[repressed]] but adrift; only the [[signifier]]s that anchor it are [[repressed]]. For [[Lacan]] [[anxiety]], <i>[[angoisse]]</i>, is not without an [[object]], but this [[object]] is unknown. Since [[anxiety]] is linked to [[desire]], and [[fantasy]] is the support of [[desire]], the starting point is the <i>[[fantasme]]</i> elaborated in the [[Graph of Desire]] in <i>[[Les formations de l'inconscient]]</i>: [[Image:lacansem1b1.gif|12px]]<><i>a</i> ([[Subject]] [[bar]]red by the [[signifier]]/relation to/<i>[[objet a]]</i>, which is the [[object of desire]], the [[imaginary]] [[part-object]], an element imagined as separable from the rest of the [[body]]). He then proceeds to define <i>[[objet a]]</i> which relates [[anxiety]] with [[desire]]. |
− | <i>[[Objet a]]</i> is the cause of [[desire]], not its aim. On one hand, it is "the residue of division when the subject is marked by the 'unbroken line' of the signifier in the field of the Other." <i>[[Objet a]]</i> is different from the <i>a</i> of the mirror stage, it is not [[specular]]; neither is it "visible in what continues for the [[subject]] the [[image]] of his [[desire]]." It is what is lost during the original constitution of the [[subject]] where the [[Father]] is primary. If we consider the [[body]], <i>[[objet a]]</i> is not created by the [[separation]] from the [[mother]], but from the [[separation]] from the [[body]] proper. <i>[[Objet a]]</i> is the placenta, <i>l'hommelette</i>, and even the breast tied to the [[subject]] and detached from the [[mother]]. They are all objects of [[desire]] for us, and there is no [[anxiety]] for the [[woman]]. In a system centered on the [[signifier]], <i>[[objet a]]</i> seems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real deprivation." | + | <i>[[Objet a]]</i> is the [[cause]] of [[desire]], not its aim. On one hand, it is "the residue of [[division]] when the subject is marked by the 'unbroken line' of the signifier in the field of the Other." <i>[[Objet a]]</i> is different from the <i>a</i> of the [[mirror]] [[stage]], it is not [[specular]]; neither is it "[[visible]] in what continues for the [[subject]] the [[image]] of his [[desire]]." It is what is lost during the original [[constitution]] of the [[subject]] where the [[Father]] is primary. If we consider the [[body]], <i>[[objet a]]</i> is not created by the [[separation]] from the [[mother]], but from the [[separation]] from the [[body]] proper. <i>[[Objet a]]</i> is the placenta, <i>l'hommelette</i>, and even the [[breast]] tied to the [[subject]] and detached from the [[mother]]. They are all [[objects]] of [[desire]] for us, and there is no [[anxiety]] for the [[woman]]. In a [[system]] centered on the [[signifier]], <i>[[objet a]]</i> seems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real [[deprivation]]." |
− | On the other hand, [[anxiety]] arises when [[lack]] comes to be lacking. It is not nostalgia for the material breast, but the threat of its imminence. [[Lacan]] uses Jone's analysis of the nightmare, "this being, the incubus, who weighs on our chest with his opaque weight of foreign <i>jouissance</i>," "who crushes the subject under his <i>jouissance</i>," and who is "a questioner." [[Anxiety]], like desire, is linked to the Other, to the <i>[[jouissance]]</i> and to the [[demand]] of the [[Other]]. [[Lacan]] links it to the terrible commandment of the [[Father]]-[[God]]: "<i>Jouis!</i>" For instance, what or whose apparition does for the sudden gap of an opening window (<i>The [[Wolf Man]]</i>)? An [[uncanny]] strangeness or familiarity, it is the horror of the [[Thing]] against which only desire and law combined are able to protect us. This takes place when the [[subject]] loses the support of the [[lack]] that allows him to constitute himself: - F (the [[phallus]] as [[symbol]] of [[lack]]). It is difficult to situate - F and <i>[[objet a]]</i> in their mutual rapport. The [[phallus]] is sometimes the <i>agalma</i>, and sometimes an operating libidinal reserve that saves the subject from the fascination of the [[part object]]. Hence, the importance granted to [[symbolic]] [[castration]] in front of "the father's opaque and ungraspable desire," a [[castration]] at the origin of the [[law]]. | + | On the other hand, [[anxiety]] arises when [[lack]] comes to be [[lacking]]. It is not [[nostalgia]] for the [[material]] breast, but the [[threat]] of its imminence. [[Lacan]] uses Jone's [[analysis]] of the [[nightmare]], "this [[being]], the incubus, who weighs on our chest with his opaque weight of foreign <i>jouissance</i>," "who crushes the subject under his <i>jouissance</i>," and who is "a questioner." [[Anxiety]], like [[desire,]] is linked to the Other, to the <i>[[jouissance]]</i> and to the [[demand]] of the [[Other]]. [[Lacan]] [[links]] it to the terrible commandment of the [[Father]]-[[God]]: "<i>Jouis!</i>" For [[instance]], what or whose apparition does for the sudden gap of an opening window (<i>The [[Wolf Man]]</i>)? An [[uncanny]] strangeness or familiarity, it is the [[horror]] of the [[Thing]] against which only desire and law combined are able to protect us. This takes [[place]] when the [[subject]] loses the support of the [[lack]] that allows him to constitute himself: - F (the [[phallus]] as [[symbol]] of [[lack]]). It is difficult to situate - F and <i>[[objet a]]</i> in their mutual rapport. The [[phallus]] is sometimes the <i>[[agalma]]</i>, and sometimes an operating [[libidinal]] reserve that saves the subject from the [[fascination]] of the [[part object]]. Hence, the importance granted to [[symbolic]] [[castration]] in front of "the father's opaque and ungraspable desire," a [[castration]] at the origin of the [[law]]. |
− | [[Anxiety]], then, is an [[affect]], not an emotion; the only affect which is beyond all doubt and which is not deceptive. Whereas Freud distinguishes between [[fear]] (focused on a specific object) and anxiety (which is not), [[Lacan]] posits [[anxiety]] as not without an object: it simply involves a different kind of [[object]], one that cannot be [[symbol]]ized as other objects are. This object is <i>[[objet a]]</i>, the object-cause-of-desire, and [[anxiety]] arises when something fills the place of it, when the [[subject]] is confronted by the [[desire]] of the [[Other]] and does not know what object he is for that [[desire]]. Also [[Lacan]] links [[anxiety]] to [[lack]]. All [[desire]] springs from [[lack]], and [[anxiety]] appears when this [[lack]] is in itself lacking: "anxiety is the lack of a lack." [[Anxiety]] is not the [[absence]] of the breast, it is rather the possibility of its [[absence]] which saves the [[subject]] from [[anxiety]]. [[Acting out]] and [[passage to the act]] are last [[defense]]s against [[anxiety]]. | + | [[Anxiety]], then, is an [[affect]], not an [[emotion]]; the only affect which is beyond all [[doubt]] and which is not deceptive. Whereas Freud distinguishes between [[fear]] (focused on a specific object) and anxiety (which is not), [[Lacan]] posits [[anxiety]] as not without an object: it simply involves a different kind of [[object]], one that cannot be [[symbol]]ized as other objects are. This object is <i>[[objet a]]</i>, the object-cause-of-desire, and [[anxiety]] arises when something fills the place of it, when the [[subject]] is confronted by the [[desire]] of the [[Other]] and does not [[know]] what object he is for that [[desire]]. Also [[Lacan]] links [[anxiety]] to [[lack]]. All [[desire]] springs from [[lack]], and [[anxiety]] appears when this [[lack]] is in itself lacking: "anxiety is the lack of a lack." [[Anxiety]] is not the [[absence]] of the breast, it is rather the possibility of its [[absence]] which saves the [[subject]] from [[anxiety]]. [[Acting out]] and [[passage to the act]] are last [[defense]]s against [[anxiety]]. |
− | And what happens in the [[cure]]? How can the [[analyst]] measure how much [[anxiety]] a [[patient]] can bear? How may the [[analyst]] deal with his own [[anxiety]]? The [[desire of the analyst]] is here involved and he has to institute, along with [[anxiety]], the - F, an emptiness whose function is structural. | + | And what happens in the [[cure]]? How can the [[analyst]] measure how much [[anxiety]] a [[patient]] can bear? How may the [[analyst]] deal with his own [[anxiety]]? The [[desire of the analyst]] is here involved and he has to institute, along with [[anxiety]], the - F, an emptiness whose function is [[structural]]. |
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<b>Le séminaire, Livre X: L'angoisse.</b><br> | <b>Le séminaire, Livre X: L'angoisse.</b><br> | ||
− | French: unpublished.<br> | + | [[French]]: unpublished.<br> |
− | English: unpublished. | + | [[English]]: unpublished. |
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− | |width="100%"| [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. [[Seminar I|Le séminaire, Livre II: Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse]]. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. Paris: Seuil, 1977. 374 pages, Language: French, ISBN: 2020047276. <small><small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small></small> | + | |width="100%"| [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. [[Seminar I|Le séminaire, Livre II: Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse]]. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1977. 374 pages, Language: French, ISBN: 2020047276. <small><small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small></small> |
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