Returning To Freud: Clinical Psychoanalysis In The School Of Lacan

Returning to Freud: Clinical Psychoanalysis in the School of Lacan Edited and Translated by STUART SCHNEIDERMAN New Haven and London Yale University Press CONTRIBUTORS Jean Clavreul Marcel Czermak Jacques Lacan Serge Leclaire Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni Charles Melman Jacques-Alain Miller Michele Montrelay Moustapha Safouan Jean-Claude Schaetzel Rene Tostain Copyright © 1980 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Designed by Sally Harris and set in VIP Electra type. Printed in the United States of America by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under titleReturning to Freud. Includes index. 1. Psychoanalysis—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Psychology, Pathological—Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Lacan, Jacques, 1901— Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Schneiderman, Stuart, 1943[DNLM: 1. Psychoanalysis. WM460 R4391 RC506.R45 616.89'17 80-11927 ISBN 0-300-02476-2 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Translator's Preface Lacan's Early Contributions to Psychoanalysis The Other Lacan vii 1 9 PART ONE. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERVIEW 1. A Lacanian Psychosis: Interview by Jacques Lacan 2. Teachings of the Case Presentation Jacques-Alain Miller 19 42 PART TWO. NEUROSIS 3. In Praise of Hysteria Moustapha Safouan 4. The Fable of the Blood Eugenie Lemoine-Luceioni 5. The Story of Louise Michele Montrelay 6. Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional Serge Leelaire 7. Philo, or the Obsessional and His Desire Serge Leelaire 8. On Obsessional Neurosis Charles Melman 9. The Dream and Its Interpretation in the Direction of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Moustapha Safouan 10. The Apprenticeship of Tilmann Moser Moustapha Safouan 55 61 75 94 114 130 139 160 PART THREE. PSYCHOSIS 11. The Onset of Psychosis Marcel Czermak 12. Bronzehelmet, or the Itinerary of the Psychotherapy of a Psychotic Jean-Claude Schaetzel v 171 184 vi 13. Contribution to the Psychoanalysis of Transsexualism Moustapha Safouan PART FOUR. PERVERSION 14. The Perverse Couple Jean Clavreul 15. Essay in Clinical Psychoanalysis: The Alcoholic Charles Melman 16. Fetishization of a Phobic Object Rene Tostain Index of Psychoanalytic Terms Index of Proper Names Translator's Preface I have described below the reasoning that dictated some of my choice of terms in translating these articles. In most cases I have discussed my decisions with Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller. First, I have chosen to translate the French sens and signification as, respectively, "sense" and "meaning." The reasons for this choice may seem obvious, but Alain Sheridan has chosen in his translations of Lacan to use "meaning" and "signification," respectively. Certainly in some contexts sens is a bit closer to what we call meaning, but the word translates perfectly well as "sense," and the two share approximately the same equivocation. This of course liberates the word "meaning" to translate the French signification. In my judgment the English word "signification" is too archaic to be useful and does not have the familiarity that si