Lacanian Coordinates

Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and it is a praxis. It is another thing what psychoanalysis does. The study "Lacanian Coordinates" starts with that question. It then takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan's teaching, from the logic of the signifier and the Lacanian subject, qua Freud, to the drive and object a, qua object a to the desire of the Other and qua guilt and castration towards love and femininity where Volume 2 takes up. Volume 1 discerns the points of Lacanian orientation that lead us, one by one, to the particularity of the subject? Where do we find them? If not in the discourse of the universal, to which religion, science and philosophy testify, then - why not? - in the analytic experience. Psychoanalysis creates conditions for an encounter with an analyst and with words forgotten, neglected, underestimated, bursting with meaning and surprises. Each chapter contributes to this subjective realisation, taking as reference the clinic, the voice of an analysand, everyday discourse, following Lacan's teaching to the letter. An ethics that emerges from this experience is not of the superego but of a speaking being faced with the inexistence of all-knowing and all-powerful Other.