Jacques-Alain Miller

Today we’re going to attempt a further step in the approach of the fantasm, in its relation to the symptom—and I can right away give a series of three terms which, for me, at least constitute, if not organize, the perspective of this course. These three terms are not usually placed in a se-ries, but doing so allows us to speak about something that illuminates the use of concepts in psychoanalysis. I believe it justifi es a big chunk of Lacan’s teaching. These three terms are primary repression, the fundamental fantasm and primordial masochism...