Miami Symposium : flash
Buenos Aires:
colleagues
from Argentina
get
ready
the Miami
Symposium…
Tato
Facing an enthusiastic and numerous audience, this
evening’s
coordinator, Fabian
Naspartek, edits
the provoking
title of the
Symposium
“What Lacan
Knew About
Women,” by
adding
“What he
knew.. or
didn’t know…
about women…”
This
presentation
is part of the
systematic
work we
develop with
colleagues in
the United
States.”
This way, it is announced that the Symposium, which is
open to
everyone, will
have
the presence
of colleagues
from the
different
Schools of the
World
Association
of
Psychoanalysis.
Jacques
Alain Miller’s
presence
at the
conference
proves its
significance,
and the
interest of
the
World
Association of
Psychoanalysis
(WAP) in this
event. Four
papers were
presented
on the evening
of Wednesday,
April 10th
at the Escuela
de la
Orientación
Lacaniana in
Buenos Aires
(School of
Lacanian
Orientation).
Mariela Yern, in
her paper
titled
“FEMENEIDAD”
(Femininity)
takes us
through the
path treaded
by “ponderous
men” who based
their work on
Freud’s
research, down
into the
findings of
men in the
present
who from a
position of
“romantic
Ideal love for
the
pornography of
jouissance,”
ask how a
woman enjoys
herself.
Different
answers are
found in the
process known
as “the
attempt to
deal with the
sexual
reality.” This
stems from the
Freudian
thesis about
feminine
sexuality and
its
counterpoint
with the
Lacanian
voice,
who says that
women do speak
but they don’t
say it all,
situating “a
feminine
jouissance that
is not
all.”
followed Daniela
Fernandez’s
paper “THE
FUTURE EVE.”
In Lacan’s
literary
references,
Fernandez has
found a quote in
which he
acknowledges
Maurice
Merleau-Ponty
for his
development on
the subject and
problematic of
femininity. “The
eye made so as
not to see” ,
“the feminine
figure of the
novel Future
Eve” by Auguste
Villiers de
L’Isle-Adam and
“the
artist” which
Lacan situates
in contrast to
Eve who sees it
all point out to
the
vertexes that
converge in the
different ways
of attempting to
seize the
essence of the
feminine, while
cropping
out the
“extraction of
the object a”.
Fernandez
states, “If we
reflect on
Lacan’s quote,
we can ask
ourselves what
methods
Villiers, the
artist, uses to
leave
us at the mercy
of the access to
the impossible
to unveil that
makes up the
object a.”
paper, from Debora
Nitzcaner “
WHY TALK TO A
WOMAN?,”
unfolds and
explores three
questions about
the feminine in
the clinical
field
and concludes
with two
testimonies by
male school
analysts (SA) .
What do
analysts say
about feminine
jouissance? What
does a woman
want? What does
a
woman know?
These were the
three scansions
presented. The
first one
discusses a
dialogue in the
film “Talk to
her,” to situate
the Fundamental
Fantasy in a
woman. The
second scansion
deals with a
quote by Lacan,
which says, “no
one bears
being not-all”
which
demonstrates
“the tie of a
woman in her way
of addressing
the phallus.”It
then concludes,
surrounding the
“impossible-to-be-said,”
in the
silence of the
feminine
jouissance as
presented in
Luís Tudanca and
Gustavo
Stiglitz’s
testimonies .
This development
points to a
counterpoint
between the
scientific
discussion of
The Future Eve
and how male
analysts allow
themselves
to get caught in
the feminine.
with the
clinical
approach
by asking :
“How do women
approach
today’s
psychoanalysis?…As
they always
have: always
differently.”
The title of
his text
“VORACITY”
takes us into
“modern
epidemics”
as well as “to
the voracity
Freud denotes
in the
Superego,
which is
structural.”
His quote
takes us to
the
construction
of the
sinthome as
the
“discontent”
in
civilization.
He discusses
this
discontent
within the
frame of the
case of a
30-year-old
woman who
requires
treatment due
to her
obesity, after
rejecting the
possibility of
undergoing
bariatric
surgery.
Obesity has
marked her
life and
this clinical
vignette shows
the point at
which
“voracity” has
marked her
jouissance as
she
establishes
this signifier
when talking
about the
Edipic plot,
focusing on
the question
about
femininity as
“this way of
capitalist
functioning
which
pressures the
Superegotic
jouissance…”
in these
presentations include: A hypermodern way
of the woman’s jouissance; a woman
that sees it all; a woman who eats it
all; the invitation to talk; what is not
possible to say; speaking of the
not-all. These counterpoints take us
through
the path of what psychoanalysis can
teach, what is known about women and what
Lacan knew about them. This pathway
leads us to the Symposium to which we
are
invited.
