Groupe du Champ Freudien - Bulgarie, New Bulgarian University,
Ciela Publishing House and The Red House Centre for Culture
and Debate present:
The Strange
Laws that Rule Our Existance
public lecture by Daniel Roy, France – psychoanalyst, psychiatrist,
member of the Freudian Cause School (www.causefreudienne.org),
and of the New Lacanian School, Chairman of Groupe du Champ
Freudien – Bulgarie
The lecture is the first of a series of four lectures and
presents the book
The Family
Complexes by Jacques Lacan
published in Bulgarian by Ciela Publishers (www.ciela.net)
Expect more in the series:
28 November 2008
Autism – public lecture by Daniel Lakade-Labro
23 January 2009
Can We Continue Speaking about „Mental Retardation”?
– public lecture by Jeanviev Klouture
27 March 2009
Two Cases of Modern Adolescents – public
lecture by Sylven Maccaly
Biographic note about Jacques Lacan:
Jacques-Marie-Emile Lacan (April 13, 1901
- September 9, 1981) is a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist
and doctor who made prominent contribution to the psychoanalytic
movement. His seminars conducted in Paris from 1953 until
his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual
milieu of 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist
thinkers.
Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious,
the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications,
and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was
interdisciplinary, drawing on culture, linguistics, philosophy,
mathematics, among others. Although a controversial and divisive
figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literature
studies, and twenty-century French philosophy, as well as
in the living practice of psychoanalysis.
More information about the book:
The Family
Complexes by Jacques Lacan (translation by
Krassimira Tocheva, Assen Tchaouchev and Teodora Pavlova,
translation of the introduction by Jacques-Alain Miller; Krassimira
Tocheva and Teodora Pavlova, managing editor: Vessela Banova,
Ciela Publishers, 2008, in Bulgarian) is one of Lakan’s earliest
texts not included in the famous book „Ecrits” published later.
The text which has been firstly published in Encyclopedia
(1938), has been assigned to Lakan by Henri Wallon. The original
title of the book is misleading as stated in the Encyclopedia
(“The Family”) – the original one is The Family Complexes
in the Formation of the Individual. For its time this masterpiece
combines astoundingly well theory of mental development and
Freudian clinic and has gained a resounding success.
The book begins with an introduction, in which Lacan explains
the family institution in relation to the human family cultural
organisation, the mental inheritance, the biological relationship
and examination of the primitive family as a whole institution.
In the first Chapter – The Complex, which is a specific family
psychology factor/operator, Lacan lays down a general definition
of a complex, and he compares it with instinct, analyzing
the concept of complex according to Freud ‘s theory and the
concept of imago. Further he reviews thoroughly the weaning
complex taken as a consequence of ceasing breastfeeding, as
a mental crisis, the imago of the mother’s breast, the exteroceptive
form or the human presence, the proprioceptive satisfaction
or the oral acceptance/feeding/, the interoceptive indisposition/malaise
or the pre-childbirth Imago. The text continues with elaborating
on the topic of weaning as premature precociousness, typical
for childbirth, tackles with motherhood/maternal feeling and
the lust/desire/inclination for death, the relation with home
and the desire for integrity/wholeness.
The second part, named The Family Complexes in the Pathology,
introduces an abstract/review of the Freudian clinic, masterfully
reproduced. This part of the text still does not enable us
to attain what Lacan’s core concepts will become. Still it
is even more comprehensible that we have an inexperienced
psychoanalyst and a young psychiatrist and this explains even
better Lacan’s attitude, which guides him through this sphere
or history of unconsciousness. At the same time the missing
link in this text is the very concept of the unconscious and
this is incredible. In this text there is a general lack of
theory of unconsciousness as well as any of psychoanalytical
practice. Here we witness a Lacan who hasn’t yet initiated
his theory - neither the metaphor nor the metonymy - and who
nevertheless excludes the mere natural human instinct, taking
into consideration only the observation, experience, psychology
and time anthropology. On this ground he demarcates/delimits
the basic instinct and what is attributable to man, and he
emphasizes on the constructive aspect of the dimension which
he labels/names culture – everything attributable to man.
In fact in The Family Complexes and not in Les Ecrits (written
much later) one can find the greatest resemblance with Lacan’s
famous and fundamental book- The Mirror Stage (published in
1949).
In the second Chapter, Lacan reviews the intrusion/obtrusion
complex, and analyses such phenomena as jealousy and ID/image
of the Other, the sense/meaning of the initial feeling for
aggression. In the same chapter he presents his mirror phases
theory together with the narcissistic self-structure/concept,
the drama/collision of jealousy between ID/Me concept and
The Other, and prerequisites and consequences of brotherhood.
In the third Chapter, Lacan deals with the Oedipus Complex
by scheming the complex itself, the complex objective dimensions,
analyses the family according to Freud’ s concept, the castration
complex and the myth about parricide.
The book The Family Complexes is strongly recommended to
practitioners in common psychology, clinical psychology, psychoterapy,
psychoanalysis; philosophy, semiotics, professionals in the
so called help professions – social workers, pedagogues, tutors/teachers;
artists, culture and language researchers, etc.; students
in humanitarian Departments as psychology, philosophy, cultural
studies, studies of art, semiotics, social work, pedagogy,
etc.
The book is published in Bulgarian thanks to Champ Freudien,
Ciela Publishers and Vitosha programme of the French Institute
– Sofia.
October 3 (Friday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
In Bulgarian and French, with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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