Lacan's philosophical coquetry

Tony Cutler

pp. 90-107

in: Colin MacCabe (ed), The talking cure, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1981

Abstract

The manner in which our patients bring forward their associations during the work of analysis gives us an opportunity for making some interesting observations. ‘Now you’ll think I mean to say something insulting, but really I’ve no such intention.’ We realize that this is a rejection, by projection, of an idea that has just come up. Or: ‘You ask who this person in the dream can be. It’s not my mother.’ We emend this to: ‘So it is his mother’. In our interpretation, we take the liberty of disregarding the negation and of picking out the subject-matter alone of the association. (SE xix: 235)

Cited authors

Lacan Jacques