Pure Psychoanalysis,
Applied Psycho-
analysis and
Psychotherapy
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER
A Sophism of
Courtly Love
ERIC LAURENT
On Love as Comedy
ALENKA ZUPANCIC
From Identification
to the Logic of
the Perceived
RICHARD KLEIN
lacanian ink 20 undertakes voyeurism and the structure of voyeurism at the point where the discourse shows forth in the intersubjective. Love and the subsidiary passions forever clinging to the hidden cause, the actual configuration is not different from the one that makes for Jacques Lacan's non-existent analyst, for his non-existent woman, for the non-existent art…Still we want to distinguish between the analyst, the woman, the art, and the likewise non-existent voyeur – with Marlene McCarty in "Poltergeist…"
But where do you draw the line? A word that stands for a limit, we have with Jacques-Alain Miller in "Psychoanalysis…" that "the anchoring point is a final term, a point against the grain from which the trajectory of an experience prescribes, re-signifies, and re-subjectivises." We regain the cut by dint of Eric Laurent in "A Sophism…" where "Antigone breaks the boundary of the beauty and harmony of the image in order to move toward a body promised to death, fragmented by the horror that is going to assail it." Let Alenka Zupancic expose on the turn of speech. In "On Love…" she posits that "The act of saying 'That's it, that's the Thing' has the effect of opening a certain entre-deux, which becomes the space in which the real of the Thing unfurls between two 'ridiculous objects' that are supposed to incarnate it." Crisis may nevertheless block the door. Says Richard Klein "…identification stabilizes the relation to the image, creating a sense of self out of it. But it may not trigger it. Capgras and his collaborators make that the cause of psychosis. If the identification is not triggered, there is no transformation of the subject's relations to its imaginary partner…" Slavoj Zizek nails down political reality "the divide friend/enemy is never just the verification of a factual difference: the enemy is by definition always… invisible, it looks like one of us, it cannot be directly recognized… Jews are the enemy par excellence: it is not only that they conceal their true image…it is that there is ultimately
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