What is the Real?
JACQUES- ALAIN MILLER
Beyond Prince Charming
& Pink Swords
MARIE HÉLÈNE-BROUSSE
Note on the Treatment
of the Symptom
by the Analytic Act
PIERRE-GILLES GUÉGUEN
Lacan's Legacy:
From the Universal to
the Particular
NATALIE WULFING
Lacan as Analysand
ÉRIC LAURENT
The Real
& the Semblance
JACQUES- ALAIN MILLER
Everlasting Couch
MARIE HÉLÈNE-BROUSSE
The Emperors Heron
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT
[...]Such is the principle that we will apply now to the actor, and we will say: the actor is not a clinical case.
Nonetheless, we often suppose, for example, that the actor is a hysteric. The most developed comparison on this point was pro- duced by Paul-Claude Racamier. “The question of whether certain psychological textures are particularly favorable to the theater may have been approached,” Lacan says, “notably by someone I have reviewed recently, and whose article published some years ago on what he called ‘Hysteria and Theater’20 gave us some hope. We shall perhaps have occasion to speak of it with interest, if not complete agreement.” And further on: “Why does Hamlet not act? Why does this will, this desire, appear to be suspended in him, something that reconnects in some way with what Sir James Paget... wrote about hysterical paralysis[...]
art: Saul Fletcher,Untitled, 2013
