After Lacan by WILLY APOLLON DANIELLE BERGERON & LUCIE CANTIN

Author:WILLY APOLLON,DANIELLE BERGERON & LUCIE CANTIN [BERGERON, WILLY APOLLON,DANIELLE & CANTIN, LUCIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Indeed, Mr. T. regularly has such episodes where he remains immobile, silent and indeed even catatonic.

A second dream:

There is a Western atmosphere.There are people who are sitting.

There was a question of energy. I was lacking energy for something.

In his associations, Mr. T. reports that he lacks energy these days. “To lack energy is to be naïve,” he says. His naiveté causes him to receive many blows of an unknown nature. Then, he must heal all these pains From Delusion to Dream

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precisely as they occur—and that is what takes so much of his energy.

After such blows, he must go to his room to meditate and to heal. People are always trying to trap him. People suck up his energy; he feels this physically. Thus, in his first psychosis, he says, his head was affected.

A third dream:

I see a cleaning lady dressed in white. She is rather pretty. I don’t know how she did it, but she got me with her face. It is as if she had gained my confidence. She goes by the bed, I see her and then I completely lose sight of her and it is as if she were going through my forehead.

In his associations, Mr T. says that seduction is a trick to freeze him, so that he can no longer move. It is the same with words, with the way people use words with him, he says. The woman in the dream goes through his forehead, through the place of the third eye, the spiritual eye. I then intervene and ask him whether he has any childhood memories related to his forehead. He recalls an accident when his brother suffered a forehead injury.

The intervention takes the form of a question. In asking him whether the forehead is related to a childhood memory, something different is introduced into a system that until then has been closed up. “The woman who goes through his forehead,” a representation provided by the dream, is traced back by him in his associations to an element of delusion. There, its meaning is fixed, closed: the forehead is the place of the third eye, the spiritual eye. It is as if the dream-work brought nothing more, as if it didn’t come from an Other Scene, from a place Other than his imaginary universe. The analyst’s questioning, however, brings back the subject’s history—and even more importantly, it establishes for the psychotic subject that dream-work is governed by laws other than those of consciousness or imaginary creation.

At the next session, Mr.T. relates a dream and then, for the first time, produces associations linked to elements of his history.The dream therefore brings signifiers and elements that are no longer linked exclusively to the delusion, but rather are linked to events of the previous day, to memories, and to important events in his life. Thus, little by little, the psychotic subject enters the logic of dream, a logic which had escaped him and which is no longer that of delusion, a logic which therefore disrupts his imaginary position of certainty and savoir.

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