nls-messager 383 – 2011/2012 Towards Tel Aviv 35 – Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS (Reminder and Specifications) Our common referenceTo prepare this 10th Congress, we rely on the text « Reading a Symptom » by Jacques-Alain Miller, which is the presentation given at the Congress in London of the theme that will reunite us this year in Tel Aviv. J.-A. Miller proposes there a frame and precise points of orientation for the reading of Lacan’s teaching. We invite everyone to refer to it, as well as other preparatory texts circulated throughout the year by NLS-Messager ‘Towards Tel Aviv’ (which you find on the NLS website and this address : http://www.amp-nls.org/en/template.php?sec=congres&file=congres/2012/Vers-Tel-Aviv.html)Clinical Cases have PriorityWe will explore the trails that J.-A. Miller gives us for clinical cases. As last year, we insist thateveryone is attentive to the construction of the case. ‘To construct’ involves a reduction and a selection of ‘material’. Neither theoretical metalanguage nor simple narration, the writing should be in one way or another the result of a question that the practitioner posed himself and that it bears the mark of.Programme and axes of workWe will finalise the programme when the propositions for papers are available, of course. We will start focusing on choosing a series of plenary panels on the Saturday where we will debate the salient points of the papers given, amongst them those of anumber of AEs; the morning of the Sunday will be divided between the simultaneous rooms and a plenary session with a closing speech.For an indication and without wanting to fix the sequences yet, we propose some axes for work that it would be good to keep account of in the writing of texts: – ‘Reading a symptom is to sever it from meaning’- Interpretation problematised: interpretation (on the side of meaning) / reading (on the side of the letter); the decipherable and the indecipherable – Unconscious formations / body event- The symptom at the beginning of analysis: the ‘putting into shape of the analytic symptom’, ‘clinic under transference’, therapeutic demands, the relationship to the scientific discourse- The symptom as truth / the symptom as mode of jouissance; symptom and fantasy, symptom and drive; symptom and sinthome- From symptoms to the sinthome; symptomatic remainders, destiny of the symptom at the end of analysis (Panel of the AEs)- Differential clinic of the symptom; its status: symptom and Name-of-the-Father, on the basis of a generalisation of foreclosure, or ‘everyone is mad’; treatment and inventions of the subject; in neurosis and psychosis- The symptom and the body: body phenomena or body event; what body?; hysteria and psychosomatic; incorporation of the symptom into the ego in the obsessional- Reading a symptom today: psychoanalysis and ‘the society of the symptom’ (E. Laurent); clinical debates of today (on autism for example), the law and the symptom,etc. Committee of ReadersA committee of attentive readers from 4 corners of the NLS and the ECF will participate in the selection of texts. It will examine each text that was sent and will enter into contact with its author to allow him to refine, if necessary, the writing of the text. It is thus important that each author submits his text in either French or English and that he respects the deadline to make this preliminary work possible. Deadline and Lengths of TextsTexts of 7000 signs including spaces should be sent to Anne Lysy ([email protected]) and Claudia Iddan ([email protected]) before 9 April 2012.We are looking forward to your contributions and hope many of you will wish to add your voice to the elaboration. See you very soon! Anne Lysy,PresidentCongress Director