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Clinical follow-up of a 2-year-old boy who initially does not recognise his image in the mirror. The aim is to show the particular way in which the oral object attaches itself to the representation of the unity of the body in the mirror, and is part of what Lacan describes as the specular stage: "Before desire learns to recognise itself [...] through the symbol, it is seen only in the other" and is "[...] a fragmented desire" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lacan will highlight the articulation of need, demand and desire by taking support from the observation of the child. The analytic experience with children leads us to take the measure of the structural span of the operation of subtraction that language inflicts on the living. The result of this subtraction is congruent with the ineducable dimension of desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With reference to the fantasy and its traversal, this article examines the relation between desire and jouissance in the analytic experience, where the object a "can only be deduced to the extent of each individual's psychoanalysis". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the dream of an hysteric, an analysand of Freud's, called 'The dream of the beautiful butcher's wife', we will see that unconscious desire is the motor of the dream and that this makes the dream the royal road to the Freudian unconscious. But we shall see that it was Lacan who was to provide the logic and the solution to what Freud encountered as the limit to this path of the interpretation of desire, which he called "the navel of the dream". Lacan will show that this navel is structural because "desire, in its unconscious function, is the desire of the Other". Finally, we will see how he turned hysteria into a discourse, a model of the social bond through speech which he will call discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The psychoanalytical dispositive opens the possibility of the advent of a clinical fact, of something that has taken on a singular value in the experience of the one who comes to speak. If the analyst has the duty to interpret, he is careful not to respond as an expert. Holding to the measure of what causes and makes the subject talk, the ethics of desire implies having weighed the value of silence in order to produce the ‘right not-said’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The brief apologue of the mustard pots introduced by Lacan in his seminar The Ethics of Psychoanalysis allows us to approach the specificity of the psychoanalytic clinic in a clear way. It opens up the logical operations of the constitution of the subject and of desire and leads to specifying the effectiveness of the analytic operation. On this path, two ternaries are to be tied: demand-identification-transference and indetermination-deception-certainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the beginning to the end of an analysis, how does the urgency of the case present itself, in whatever analysis? The passage from the beginning to the end, “the time that is needed” will not occur without the analyst: it is urgent, from the beginning to the end, that he does not loose track of his politics, that is of his act: to give the satisfaction of the end to cases of urgency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud set forth the following principle of analytic technique: analysis must as far as possible take place in a state of refusal, of abstinence. That is what Lacan translated into « not to respond to demand ». Now, by elaborating the notion of demand and the question of its satisfaction, Lacan finally showed that the analyst must in fact satisfy the demand that deserves to be considered as fundamental. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]