Jacques Lacan, 1901–81... «Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction»
innashpitzberg2 сентября 2012Jacques Lacan, 1901–81 Psychoanalyst who radically reinterpreted Freud in the light of linguistics and anthropology. His Écrits (1966) are extraordinarily elusive, cryptic, and dense at first reading. Lacan's annual Seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953–4 onwards, have been gradually appearing in print, first in French and then in translation. These are less obscure, but only marginally so.
The writings and these oral deliveries were addressed to psychoanalysts, whose job it was, Lacan believed, to listen extremely attentively to what their patients said. The role of the analyst is to hear the voice of the unconscious, which makes itself audible through the censorship of consciousness in riddles, allusions, elisions, and omissions. Lacan's own riddling manner mimics the utterances of the unconscious.
For his admirers, the style makes his texts themselves into objects of desire. ‘This time,’ I always think, ‘I'm going to get it straight.’ If only.
But it becomes easier. And it is worth it. Lacan was enormously well read and highly intelligent. His incidental comments on painting, architecture, tragedy, for instance, are often worth whole volumes of more ponderous scholarship.
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