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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]

The relationship of the obsessional to time requires to make it an “emergency case”. The emergency will be considered here from the point of view of the conditions allowing the emergence of the letter of jouissance in the analytical treatment. An old case of Serge Leclaire, whose clinical lines do not yet mention this dimension, will serve as a support for our argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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