The Image of the Body
in Psychoanalysis
J-A MILLER
The Communist Idea &
the Question of Terror
ALAIN BADIOU
I Saw Him, Blushed,
Grew Pale
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT
A Desire Without
Cause?
MARIE-HÉLÈNE BROUSSE
The Other Who Does
Not Exist
PIERRE-GILLES GUÉGUEN
The Two Sexes and
the Other Jouissance
ÉRIC LAURENT
Wall of Screens
GÉRARD WAJCMAN
Love Versus
"Symptomatic Love"
ALAN ROWAN
Better Living through
Facebook
NANCY BARTON
Stations of the Arkwork
HUNTER HUNT-HENDRIX
Empty Centers
COLLEEN ASPER
God as the Big Other
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
The Other Who Does
Not Exist
[...]For sure there needs to be—and this is why the diagnosis is so important—a distinction between psychosis and neurosis.
It is not easy to diagnose in a lot of cases and particularly in those which fall into ordinary psychosis. The practice of what we called "preliminary talks" is still relevant. Nevertheless, one should not be obsessed with it in the establishing of a diagnosis. It is especially important to grasp what is peculiar to each subject in order that the first talks do not become a simple "chattering event." To say it in an approximative way, the example is given in the presentation of patients: to find in the moment of the meeting, in a conversation with the patient, the elements of the "structure"—which is what is most singular in the subject in his relation to his symptom or symptoms—and to find the way to partner up with it. One has to dare to speak with the analysand to manage to define the real of the structure but also the gap in relation to what would make a segregative "standard."There is no denying that there often are fast therapeutic effects as soon as the first talks take place. In this case, they show the transference was established in the analytical sense.
Indeed, the first talks aim at laying the foundations for transference. In the last Lacan there is a reversal in relation to the practice indicated in Seminar XI that goes with "From interpretation to transference." Lacan does point out thereafter that transference is first and that it allows interpretation.[...]