Lacan, Nous et le Réel #55- Le phallus et le père. English Subtitles.

Le Séminaire de Christian Dubuis Santini Donation, soutien :https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/semin... "To do without the father, provided you use him" is one of the Lacanian maxims repeated ad nauseam by his students and successors. How can this formula still guide the psychoanalyst in his practice today? Perhaps by starting to recall a few obvious facts, notably: this father, of whom Jacques Lacan speaks, is not the father of what is still called 'patriarchy', nor the father of the religious lather before whom it would be appropriate to protest or prostrate oneself; he is not even the father, in the flesh, of the child, that is to say, his genitor. Psychoanalysis has nothing to do with familialism, whatever Deleuze, Foucault and their admirers may think. No. It is about the father as name and as naming - not as 'mummy'. The historical and cultural context in which psychoanalysis appeared cannot be sufficiently recalled: a Viennese society in full intellectual turmoil, where morals and mores were taking on new forms and where different family organisations were already rubbing shoulders. Sigmund Freud was not one of those who gave in to moral panic in the face of societal changes - by violently rejecting them or blindly following them - and it was in the midst of this veritable whirlwind that he was able to identify the fundamental subjective structure (Oedipus) and produce the contemporary myth par excellence (the so-called primitive horde). Today, history is repeating itself and we find ourselves, in many respects, in a situation similar to that of Sigmund Freud in his time. Thus, we are not among those who claim to be emancipated and to go "beyond" Freud, but we are situated in the only revolutionary perspective that logically holds true: that of the return to Freud opened by the Lacanian gesture. Here then is the introduction to Christian Dubuis Santini's last session. My renewed thanks to Isidore Ducan for the editing. Rudy Goubet Bodart