The logical inconsistency of the other ... or the "spirit of psychoanalysis"
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.affs.14040Keywords:
inconsistency, logical-mathematical, Other, discourse, spirit of psychoanalysisAbstract
“The essence of psychoanalytic theory is a discourse without words”, Lacan says in the first class of the Seminar, book 16, From an Other to the other. Where can the paradox of this sentence send us to? First of all, according to Lacan, a signifier cannot represent itself.This takes us, therefore, to the long scope of the expression itselffor the signifier proper. There would be, so to speak, an opacity, aninconsistency in the signifier structure itself, which leads us to conclude that there is no closing point of discourse, even more, “there is no universe of discourse”. We clinically translate such statement verifying that there will always be what cannotbe said. That does not mean taking the analytic discourse as impossible, nor devalue it. It is an impasse that is, above all, a logical-mathematical one. Hence this paper presents the radicality of the logical inconsistency of the Other as a correlate of a call to what Lacan names “spirit of psychoanalysis” when addressing his School.
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