[The-Lacanalyst] Test — New Proposal

[Tate]

Emailed Received Jacques,

Now that the question of whether it is possible to work in CA without a license has been resolved – yes, you can
if you do not reduce the act of analysis to that of a barber offering services – and those who “just want to have fun”
have fled the scene, I would propose that this list make room for more serious questions about the transatlantic
adventure of psychoanalysis.

I began by asking Jacques if he could help us understand what some have called the 'co-optization' of lacanian analysis by psychiatry in
France by the two Apostles, Melman and Miller. I think you Jacques, as a psychiatrist, are particularly well-suited to
help us understand the risks of this trivialization. I, and others, would welcome a response if you have the time. (see my previous question
on Lacan’s ’Section Clinique’) 

I do think this question is particularly relevant to the practice of analysis in the US and France today, since a similar trivialization happened in the US
when Freud tried importing analysis to the US, and it was immediately seized upon by the psychiatrists and the medical community, despite
Freud’s warnings (See his article on Lay-Analysis). I am currently in touch with another psychiatrist in France, René Lew, whom I could
invite to respond to this question also, but I wanted to ask you first.

with joy,

ScullyRobert

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