The Impossible In The Analytical Experience

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Luis Izcovich

Abstract

Freud placed analysis, between governing and instructing, as one of three "impossible professions". In the article it is proposed to renew the question of the status of what is impossible since Lacan's developments, the one which extends the series by adding a fourth impossible operation. It is therefore a question of better situating the function of what is impossible in the analytical experience and the consequences for the leadership of the priest. He situates desire, truth, what is real, sex and impotence in relation to the other, by showing how for Lacan, as in Freud, what is impossible is an axis which is still constant: l The analytical experience puts in the center the question of what is impossible that it serves to define what is real, that is to say what is wrong. He deals with precisely what is wrong, is treated with the symptom, in so far as he constitutes "what is most real". In this sense, the impossible in psychoanalysis is not a sign of failure, but the compass that guides the priest.

Keywords:
analysis Impossible priest real

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