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The Psychoanalytical Notebooks of the London Society of the New Lacanian School. The London Society is an affiliated Society of the New Lacanian School (NLS).

The NLS was created within the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP).

28/06/2022

’What seems to me, afterwards, to be the thread is the emphasis on the very impossibility of the question “What is woman?”. Lacan indicated this as early as the beginning of his teaching: “Becoming a woman and wondering what a woman is are two essentially different things […] it is because one doesn’t become one that one wonders and, up to a point, to wonder is the contrary of becoming one […] Her position is essentially problematic, and up to a certain point it’s unassimilable.”

How did Lacan, and Freud in his own way, situate this “unassimilable”? In order to approach it, we have to get rid of a certain number of obvious ideas, such that of a male/female bipolarity is founded in anatomy or inscribed in the unconscious. The active/passive polarity merely “metaphorise[s] that which remains unfathomable in sexual difference”.’

Anne Lysy

26/06/2022

‘Inexistence only becomes a question on account of already having a response – the twofold response, certainly, of jouissance and of truth – but it already inexists. It is neither through jouissance nor through truth that inexistence assumes a status, that it may inexist, in other words that it may come to the symbol that designates it as inexistence, not in the sense of not having existence, but rather of only being in existence through the symbol that would make it inexistent and which, for its part, does indeed exist. As you know, this is number that is generally designated as nought. This shows very well that inexistence is not what you might think it is, namely nothingness, for what could come out of nothingness? The answer to that is nothing, of course, except belief.' Jacques Lacan, 19 January 1972

02/02/2022

‘Lacan posits in this text that topology “is” structure. In this topology the base is the torus and the Moebius strip. It is the turn that makes the hole. The hole is built from the turns of demand, which turn around a void. This void makes a hole, but a hole that is imagined, and thus leaves the real of the drive tainted by imagination.’ Philippe La Sagna and Rodolfe Adam, Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38

20/01/2022

"The letter, always in the singular, draws ‘the rim of the hole in kowledge.’ The hole is the consequence of the failures that occur as soon as a living being makes use of language [langage], as soon as he inhabits it by speaking. A certain number of effects then occur that Freud named the unconscious, which accompanies the one who speak, like his shadow." Éric Laurent

17/01/2022

"This really was pulling the rug from under their feet, at a time when the locus of the Other belonged (and still does) to the ABCs of what has crystallised as Lacanianism... Now, what has not been glimpsed, and in any case not explained, is this – the Other does not exist, means exactly that the One exists. It is another way of saying Yad'lun, which Lacan had thrown forth as a jaculation and which I transcribed in this way in the Seminar that would end up being published. Had this been noticed? What is this One that exists when the Other does not exist? It is the One of the signifier." JAM

17/01/2022

"Today we are going to have fun! It is a question of making you understand something, and you only understand where you take pleasure in it. What I am about to say amuses me, and I hope it will amuse you too. This is not self-evident, as several of you have told me that you are not very comfortable with references to philosophical literature. This is obviously not likely to stop me." JAM

17/01/2022

"The signifier One is not one signifier among others, and it surmounts that whereby it is but be-twain these signifiers that the subject is supposable, by my so saying. But this is where I recognize that this here One is but knowledge superior unto the subject, that is, unconscious insofar as it manifests itself as existing - the knowledge, I say, of a real of the One-all-alone, all-alone right where relation would be said." Jacques Lacan, Report on Seminar XIX

17/01/2022

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