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The Wolfman II
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Jacques-Alain Miller

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The Wolfman II
J-A MILLER

Disciplines of the Body
ALAIN BADIOU

Ruse, Ravaging, Ravishment
MARIE-HÉLÈNE BROUSSE

Lacan's Marx
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT

Plagiarizing from the Future
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

CODA
ASUNCIÓN ALVAREZ

The Art of Extraction
ERIC LAURENT

Rivane Neuenschwander
JOSEFINA AYERZA


[…]
MONEY
Put otherwise, the conceptual schema: 1) feces have a signification, they can have significations; 2) given that the subject has intestinal problems, the question is to know what their signification is—“I do not turn back to the patient’s childhood—to a time at which it was impossible that feces could have had the significance of money for him.” Thus Freud first reminds us that feces have a monetary signification. Then he tells us that the subject has intestinal problems and that, in order to know what their signification is, we must return to a previous time:


There are procedures that truly arise from conviction. They can even be of a rhetorical nature even to accredit first among the public an idea about a certain point, in order to benefit a more complex point. Freud appeals to something that everyone knows, namely feces=money, then he brings up the fact of the intestinal problems, and finally seeks the signification of these problems—which he says appeared very early on, before the feces had the signification of money.
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Seminar DEA (1987-1988) on “Psychoses Differential Clinic.” Text established by Nathalie Georges and Philippe Hellebois.

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