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The Conversation
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

The Wicked Other &
Its Lawless Gravity

MIQUEL BASSOLS

The Real is Without Law
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

The Unconscious Today
PIERRE-GILLES
GUÉGUEN

The Fabrication of
the Real
GÉRARD WAJCMAN

Gombrowicz's Optics: Pornographia
FRANÇOIS

REGNAULT

Todd Bienvenu
JACQUES L
ACAN
WORKSHOP

 

 
























        

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Jacques-Alain Miller

 

[...]The fundamental theme of delirium, which runs like a red thread throughout the seventeen years of analysis, is centered on a corporal sensation of constriction. This much is certain, and I will ask Monsieur Bassols to specify whether the sensation concerns the penile organ. At any rate, the demands of women seem to threaten his bodily integrity. The pleasure-seeking Other manifests itself by means of a subterranean draw which he himself must resist, as the pleasure-seeking Other desires to constrict him. Elsewhere, most notably concerning the signifier “physique,” I notice a constriction of the subject’s semantic field—he wanted to become a physicist of genius and, much later, he will suspect his neighbor of having wanted to lower his grades in his physics education—this gives place to certain language games around the signifier “physique.” Certain light phenomena of influence are also notable at the time of the first breakdown.[...]

 

 

 

 


 



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