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The substantialization of psychoanalytical concepts: effects and impasses

This article is set in a current debate on the conceptual politics of the Lacanian field. It seeks to explore one of the distinctive features of this debate: the critique of the progressive thematization of language insufficiency and the substantialization of psychoanalytical concepts in the Lacanian movement, identified by the work of some psychoanalysts. This work, in turn, points to a different reading of the Lacanian text, vectorized by a distinct ethico-epistemological horizon, markedly anti-substantialist. We highlight the place of a politics of the use of three fundamental concepts in this field: real, jouissance and body. Based on the proposed reflections, we try to present substantialism as a potential obstacle for Lacanian psychoanalysis and explore some of its possible ethical, clinical and epistemological implications.

Key words:
Psychoanalysis; real; jouissance; ethics


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