September 30 – October 2, 2011
Barnard College
Videos by Albert Herter
Éric Laurent – Lacan as Analysand
Éric Laurent – Against Neuro-metaphors
Éric Laurent – Psychoanalysis & Our Time
Marie-Hélène Brousse – Everlasting Couch?
Marie-Hélène Brousse – Beyond Prince Charming and Pink Swords
Pierre-Gilles Guéguen – Hypermodern Families
Pierre-Gilles Guéguen – Light and Shadows on a Case of Gay Bashing
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As far as the first video of Dr. Eric Laurent is concerned, he is so specific! He let us know some things about Dr. Lacan with… holes. Though, he analyses all the symptoms and he is to the point.
I agree with him about erotomaniacs. Yes, a woman always asks for a confirmation from her boyfriend, fiancee, husband. And this is because she is his object, unfortunately. That’s why she accepts everything from him. Nonetheless, she is always asking is she is the perfect, the one the man always wanted and needed and this usually happens to the women who have not met the Name of the Symbolic Father.
They always tried to find another Real Father on the face of a man… So, they need to be the best daughters if we think it more deeply.
Dr. Laurent has to say a lot in the second video, as well! We all try to find verifications, even as human beings, let us think the scientists who only try to assure us – but first of all themselves – through their statistics! We never know if they are true of false, though…
As Lacan says on “Television”, people need to be sure, but they don’t know what they believe. Death sustains us, so that we can bear our lives… For more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dI4Nl3ENY&feature=related
But, Dr. Laurent made me think of the line between true and real, we need to say the truth, but are we totally say it?
And, do we remain the same when facing the real…?
Thank you.
According to Ms. Marie-Hélène Brousse and “Beyond Prince Charming and Pink Swords”, let’s think about today’s toys, but also clothes for children called “unisex”, like Ms. Brousse said a situation of multiplication.
The Phallic order as Oral one is an action, we talk to each other, but the same is with “Killing”. And, masochism refers to people who kill others’ feelings, taking their revenge, vengeance (same emphasis the two words…, same tone, punctuation), because they are afraid of Real Love. And Fear emerges aggressiveness.
The same Other someone will Love is not all the others, but let’s consider people who have the desire of women having everything or vice-versa, the same with women…
Unconsciously, we might know that this will never happen, as something always escapes and either women or men become objects of such situations believing they love, a kind of too expensive Love, indeed! Expensive in feelings, as well, which might not be pure, as Ms. Brousse said.
Even if we search for purity, in my opinion we know, but we can’t accept that such purity is black… or a kind of purity with a black hole…, which will always hurt us.
Thank you.
As far as the last video is considered, I think that Words are the ones who hurt the flesh and that’s why we have got the symptoms. Each symptom has got its materiality and this makes each human being have a man and a woman inside him/her, as Lacan has already said.
Semblant might have to do with psyche, a word including both soul and body, something that is different for each one of us and we can only understand our semblant through psychoanalysis.
Thank you.