10th Congress of the New Lacanian School
Posted in News on May 17th, 2012 by FFCS – Comments Off
Xth NLS Congress Tel Aviv, 16 & 17 June 2012
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“It falls to me to reveal the title of the next Congress of the NLS, to justify it before you and set out a fewpoints of reflection that will be able to serve as markers when it comes to writing up the clinical texts this title calls for. * (…) The question was (…) one of determining what kind of stress, inflexion and impetus to be given to the theme of the symptom. I’ve weighed this up by drawing on the Course I give in Paris each week, where I examine Lacan and the practice of psychoanalysis today, this practice no longer being altogether that of Freud. Indeed, perhaps it is not at all that of Freud. Secondly, I weighed up the stress to be given to the theme ‘the symptom’ with regard to the place, Israel. And thus, all things considered, I have chosen the following title: Reading a Symptom. Those who read Lacan have no doubt recognised an echo of his remark in ‘Radiophonie’ that you will find on page 428 of the collection Autres écrits. He underlines that the Jew is ‘he who knows how to read’. This knowing how to read is what will be examined in Israel, knowing how to read in the practice of psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis isn’t simply a matter of listening, it is also a matter of reading. In the field of language, psychoanalysis doubtless finds its point of departure in the function of speech, but it refers it to writing. There is a gap between speaking and reading. Psychoanalysis operates in this gap. It exploits this difference.
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*Jacques-Alain Miller, extracts from his ‘Presentation of the Theme for the Tenth Congress of the NLS’, delivered at the NLS Congress in London, 3 April 2011.
The text in full will appear in the journal Mental 26 in French, and in English translation in Hurly Burly 6
