Text established by Jacques-Alain Miller.

Translated by Jack W. Stone, with the assistance of Ellie Ragland, Greg Hyder, Filip Kovacevic, and Zak Watson.

De l'histoire.,


Un regard de Paris


Judith Miller. Moscou : avec trois fils, un réticule


Un nouveau pas, suites et conséquences


Le temps de la consolidation

There are people—I know it because they have told me—who go on strike (vivent la grève) as if it were a holiday (fête). I know it, of course, through analysis. We find things out in analysis. We even know that there are people twisted enough for that. But why not? It’s subjective, as one says. That means that there are some people who can make all kinds of things turn out all right. Nonetheless, I’m not one of them. As analyst, I can only take a strike as a symptom, perhaps in the sense that I’ll arrive at with you this year, by convincing you that the symptom, when it’s referred to one of the three categories, is real. The troubling thing—and this is what makes me have reservations—is that it’s an organized symptom. That’s what’s malignant, at least from the point of view of the analyst.
Well, if I’m going to strike all the same, it’s not that it will be a holiday for me. It happens that this strike is for me like a ball and chain. I mean that it happens that today, namely at the beginning of the 74-75 [academic] year, I didn’t have the slightest desire (envie) to do a seminar for you—as is shown by the fact you never saw a poster advertising the title of it as in previous years. Nevertheless, I must say that your numbers here today have shaken me.

Речь пойдет о пациенте восьми лет, находящемся у меня в течение года на амбулаторном лечении в детско-юношеском отделении больницы. Пациент был направлен на лечение школьным кабинетом.