Refusal to Love One’s Unconscious: An Unexpected Fate for the Symptom?
Sophie Mendelsohn
Abstract
Sophie Mendelsohn
Abstract
In the course of Lacan’s seminar “Les non-dupes errent” where he introduces a pluralization of the name-of-the-father, which affects the status of the symptom, he correlates the act of wandering with a refusal to love one’s unconscious. This refusal is the consequence of knowledge gained about the unconscious during the analytic cure. Lacan emphasizes knowledge that is “annoying” (“emmerdant”). The symptom is the depository of this particular knowledge. Is it thus the symptom (and how?) that allows one, at the end of analysis, to refuse to love one’s unconscious, in other words to wander
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In the course of Lacan’s seminar “Les non-dupes errent” where he introduces a pluralization of the name-of-the-father, which affects the status of the symptom, he correlates the act of wandering with a refusal to love one’s unconscious. This refusal is the consequence of knowledge gained about the unconscious during the analytic cure. Lacan emphasizes knowledge that is “annoying” (“emmerdant”). The symptom is the depository of this particular knowledge. Is it thus the symptom (and how?) that allows one, at the end of analysis, to refuse to love one’s unconscious, in other words to wander
Key concepts: Unconscious mind, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social psychology