Editorial: Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Frontiers in Psychology

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Gertrudis Van de Vijver¹  Jos de Kroon²  Rémy Potier³ 

[1] Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University;Independent Researcher;Paris Diderot University

关键词: psychoanalysis;    Lacan;    Freud;    drive;    truth;    speaking;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00192

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The tricky thing about knowing is that one not just wishes to know, it is that one wishes to know,so to speak, for real. No kidding, the real-real, not the fake-real, that is what science, and yes, alsopsychoanalysis, are after. Certainly, the modern sciences were driven by the Greek ideal of beingproven right in name of the truth—and not just, like the sophist, by the simple fact of wanting tobe right. And the sciences of today are just on the same track, no matter how much relativity theyare willing to take on board.All this is a matter of speaking, of course, and psychoanalysis, and certainly Lacan’s returnto Freud, time and again confront us exactly with that: from the moment we speak, we, humansubjects, are into the issue of truth, that is, into the issue of truth-seeking, inevitably and often quitedesperately so. But then, psychoanalysis can reveal, perhaps more than any other discourse today,the decoys at play in this truth-seeking business, as well as the eagerness with which we are allinclined to forget about them, as if truth must be there, somewhere, somehow, even if only a littlebit, just a little bit, . . .In psychoanalysis, it is Lacan who most insistently stresses that the drive to know is what pullsus into subjectivity. And the fact that he is known to be most difficult of access, is perhaps related tothat: the question for him is not to tell how things really are—how could he, after all?—it is to haveus, all of us, one by one, circle around the structural impossibility that marks us as speaking beings,and to have us, all of us, one by one, address the question of what it means for us to have wanted andto continue to want to know. To attempt to overcome this structural impossibility is what makes ussuffer, as it is what makes up our pleasure and enjoyment. In this structural impossibility lies ourwhole possibility.

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