| Colette Soler’s paper focuses
on the analytic act, particularly on
its intrinsic violence. The notion of the violence of
the analytic instrument is
founded upon several perspectives. One of them derives
from the analyst’s
interpretative position, where there is evidence of
a hiatus between the
analysand’s word intention and that of the interpretation,
insofar as the latter
aims at revealing that which the patient does not want
to know: the results
of the unconscious –castration and the indomitable
demand of pleasure.
The analytic act’s violence becomes really meaningful
at the end of
treatment, when the analysand reaches his or her separation
identity.
Finally, a closure, an answer to the question of the
neurosis is found; but this
closure is not reached by way of identification with
the analyst, in which case
the subject’s identity would be erased and a new
kind of alienation would
settle in. The separation identity is reached through
the elaboration of the
subject’s fantasy; rather than being an identification,
it is the disclosure of the
arrangement of desire and pleasure. Lacan called it
identification with the
symptom, but Soler states her differences with Lacan
on this point.
She wonders what can the analyst hope to achieve with
his or her work;
to find an answer to it, she turns to Lacan’s
idea of the analyst as the
operation’s waste. She conceives of the analyst
as a subject of waste
because eventually, at the end of his or her work, benefits
are reaped wholly
by the analysand, not by the analyst as the act’s
agent.
She concludes that the future of psychoanalysis is not
threatened by the
disappearance of analysands but rather by that of subjects
committed to
support the analytic instrument with all the rigor and
dedication it demands.
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