Jacques LACAN (1901-1981). Autograph manuscript, Assomption - Lot 179

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Jacques LACAN (1901-1981). Autograph manuscript, Assomption - Lot 179
Jacques LACAN (1901-1981). Autograph manuscript, Assomption de soi-même; 19 pages in-4 (1st leaf slightly frayed and creased on one edge). Important working manuscript on the notion of Assumption. This manuscript, written in blue ballpoint pen, must have been used to prepare a seminar; a very first draft, in cursive, rapid handwriting, sometimes difficult to decipher, it shows numerous erasures and corrections, some in red ballpoint pen, and additions in the margins. Lacan follows the progression of his thought, linking reflections from one theme to another. His starting point is the "subject", which he places in a variety of situations: belonging to the community, identity, freedom, guilt, morality, the role of society and language, work and so on. "Assumption of self, which returns the patient from illness to its meaning. What does illness represent in its constituted form? From there, in its significance for an immediate feeling. His needs in relation to an entourage over which he has family, professional or even social control [...] The subject speaks in a language that is in principle universal". Belonging to a community requires a discipline of relationships and functions: "giving style and value to the face that people present to each other. The image that people give of themselves is obviously (formative), and the questioning it receives in the functions of the role it has to play in the community is a common occurrence". The subject must submit to a "psychologizing rule", such as free association. But we have shown that there is no such thing as free association, any more than there is a natural crime. [...] Guilt is undoubtedly of much greater importance in the psychoanalysis of a "primitive", in whom society is received as being in harmony with the cosmos, where the rites of fertility alone are parallel to those that will order nature. The unhappy conscience of man, who knows himself to be detached from the primitive order established by God [...]. Modern revolt is the reflection of this unhappy consciousness, which makes feeling lesser at the same time as it excludes it from perfection". Lacan insists on the role of the model, "the living or imaginary example. What Lucien Leuwen provides for the soul of a cultured young Frenchman is no more significant than the biographies of stars for the shorthand typist. I'm reluctant to inflect this discourse with the superiority implied in the use of the term midinette, except to point out that what gives this term its proper value is precisely the idea of a being possessed beyond all means by ideals. Let the quality of these ideals be that of bazaar objects, or blame it on the individual who is content with them, rather than on the community that allows him or her to do so". The subject who expresses himself as "I" "recognizes that I has an objectifiable character, in which he sees it as "me" as "an entity at the very least linked to the limits and servitudes of his body"; and further on: "In fact, the self is a synthesis that is constantly recreated in our experience. But we would be wrong to identify it with the higher forms of personal activity traditionally recognized by the ancient forms of wanting and knowing"... Lacan then turns to morality: "One cannot benefit from the qualifiers of provisional morality except by the blackest artifice, for the reason that it is clear that it is morality tout court"; and he concludes "The self cannot be held to be independent of certain social structures". Lacan draws a graph comparing Dialectics, Psychology and Anthropology, and continues: "The 'self' is certainly a synthesis in analysis, but a negative and alienating synthesis. It ignores what we call the drive. It ignores it. Systematic ignorance. It's built on the negation of reality and the inversion of drives. It is clearly related to delirium. It is also correlative to the structure of the human world insofar as it depends on the object. As entity - constancy - permanence - substance. As plurivalence - instrumental - symbolic. A branch is virtually a stick or a log"... Etc. The rest of the manuscript is less formal. They are more like notes on paper. He insists on the importance of psychoanalysis, which is a technique, but "not a science. Key to any scientific approach to man"... He also stresses the role of the spoken word... Etc.
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