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THE SPEAKING BODY
Xth Congress of the WAP,
Rio de Janeiro 2016
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fear of fear! A lot of these fears and anxieties, at the level at which we perceive
them, have something to do with sex. Freud used to say that, for the speaking
animal called Man, sex is without remedy and without hope. One of the
analyst’s tasks is to find, in the patient’s speech, the knot between anxiety and
sex, that great unknown.”
p. 21
“Yale University: Lecture on the Body” (1975). Trans.: A. Price and R.
Grigg [C/C]
“A body has the property of being able to be seen, poorly seen. People think of it
as a bubble of air, a bag of skin. Here one is dealing with a support, a figure (of
the imaginary, that is), with a material that I posit as real.”
p. 5
“Between the body insofar as it is imagined and what binds it (namely the fact
of speaking), man imagines himself as thinking. He thinks insofar as he speaks.
Speaking has effects on his body. (…) The real is not the outside world; it is
anatomy too, it involves the entire body.”
p. 6
“Columbia University: Lecture on the Symptom” (1975). Trans.: A.
Price and R. Grigg [C/C]
“On the other hand, what man insists on is not that he is a body, but, as he
expresses it –and this is something quite striking–
that he has one
.”
p. 14
“Overture to the First International Encounter of the Freudian Field,
Caracas, 12 July 1980”. Trans.: A. Price [HB 6, 2011]
”The surprising thing is that number is provided by
lalangue
itself, with what it
conveys by way of the real.
Why not admit that the sexual peace of animals –if we just take the one that is
said to be their king, the lion– is down to the fact that number is not introduced
into their language, whatever it may be. Doubtless, training animals can
produce something that looks like it, but it’s just appearance.
Sexual peace means that one knows what to do with the Other’s body. But who
knows what to do with a parlêtre’s body? Except to hold it more or less closely?
What does the Other manage to say, and then only when he really wants to? He
says,
hold me tight
.”
p. 19
II /d. Sinthome
II /d.1 Other publications
“
Geneva Lecture on the Symptom
”
(1975). Trans.: R. Grigg [An 1,
1989]
“What I’m drawn to the most, is that this is the human dimension properly
so–called That’s why I spoke of holy Joyce-the-symptom [
Joyce-le-
sinthôme], like
that, in a single stretch.”
p. 26
“Yale University: Lecture on the Body” (1975). Trans.: A. Price and R.
Grigg [C/C].
“Suppose if you will that the body, chit-chat, and the real each go off on their
own, wandering about . . .
Freud’s id is the real.
The symbolic, which the superego comes under, has to do with the hole.
If a fourth element is required, it is what symbolic, in so far as it forms a circle
with the unconscious, brings about.”
p. 7
Jacques Lacan