Lacan - The Unconscious Reinvented by Soler Colette;

Author:Soler, Colette;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Karnac Books

Knotting of the two unconsciouses

Lacan sought how what I have called separation identity, or even a will to separation, could be established. How could one not be reduced to the clothes of the Other that one wears? Lacan recognised the paradigm of this will in the act of Empedocles, who is supposed to have committed suicide by throwing himself into the volcano at the edge of which he had left his sandals. An extreme act. Obviously we expect from analysis a non-fatal separation of the subject that would give him his identity, and notably his sexual identity.

In the Other and in social discourse, there are only semblants, signifiers, images, norms, and prohibitions about sex, but nothing which says how each one of us enjoys. At the hour of truth, when the subject makes semblants pass to the act, there are many surprises. At the end of his elaboration, Lacan concludes that it is the real symptom that gives the subject his own identity, the true proper name that distinguishes him from everyone else, the only one that does not have a homonym.

We could thus say that analysis answers the opening question: I am my symptom. This is why Lacan speaks of “identification with the symptom”.

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