“Such awe seizes man when he unveils the lineaments of his power that he turns away from it in the very action employed to lay its features bare. So it has been with psychoanalysis. Freud’s truly Promethean discovery was such an action as his works bear witness; but the same is no less present in each humble psychoanalytic experience conducted by any one of the laborers formed in his school.
As time has gone by, we can trace almost year by year this aversion of interest as far as the function of the Word and the domain of Language are concerned.”
Lacan, Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis (Introduction)
Monday, January 11, 2010
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