Announcing the release of LC Express, issue 3:
« The Entry Into Analysis and Its Relationship to the Analytic Act from Lacan’s Late Teaching »
Gerardo Réquiz
available at http://lacaniancompass.com/journal/
Precis
This work by Gerard Réquiz is a must read. The essay begins with a summary of the late teachings of Lacan. Then, through a detailed discussion of the dynamics of the entry into analysis, Réquiz crystalizes the limitations of working exclusively at the level of the signifier without reckoning with the primacy of jouissance. He then frames the analytic act in the context of the real, reminding us that there is no « depth » in the unconscious. Rather, when a piece of the real is the nodal point for the direction of the treatment, the form that analytic work takes is of going around an edge, or a border. As with the previous two issues of the LC Express this work was presented to an international audience on as part of the ongoing 2011- 2012 video seminar series of the Lacanian Compass in preparation for Clinical Study Days 6: The Psychoanalytic Act in the 21st Century.
This work by Gerard Réquiz is a must read. The essay begins with a summary of the late teachings of Lacan. Then, through a detailed discussion of the dynamics of the entry into analysis, Réquiz crystalizes the limitations of working exclusively at the level of the signifier without reckoning with the primacy of jouissance. He then frames the analytic act in the context of the real, reminding us that there is no « depth » in the unconscious. Rather, when a piece of the real is the nodal point for the direction of the treatment, the form that analytic work takes is of going around an edge, or a border. As with the previous two issues of the LC Express this work was presented to an international audience on as part of the ongoing 2011- 2012 video seminar series of the Lacanian Compass in preparation for Clinical Study Days 6: The Psychoanalytic Act in the 21st Century.
Gary S. Marshall, Co-Editor
