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 LACAN
WORKSHOP
[...]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.[...]