Please find below the short version of the introductory note to the simultaneous clinical sessions of PIPOL 6 that will take place under the heading: “The Case, the Institution and My Experience of Psychoanalysis”. You can consult the full version by clicking on the EFP web-site at: PIPOL NEWS 2

A call for papers will be made soon.

The case, the institution, and my experience of psychoanalysis
Introduction to the simultaneous clinical sessions of PIPOL 6

(Short version)

The institution is a manifestation of the master’s discourse. The ancient paradigm of the institution is the Oedipal family1. Nonetheless, in pinning the expression After Oedipus to the contemporary world, Jacques-Alain Miller brings us to a wider reading of social or health institutions. After Oedipus other ethics have come to orient institutions, substituting the weakening family tie and taking up the place left vacant by the father. In this new institutional landscape, the best cases are those oriented by psychoanalysis.

In the Freudian Field, the mode of presence of psychoanalysis in an institution has been studied for many years. Clearly, the practitioner with psychoanalytical experience very often has a fair relationship and a novel know-how with the clinical real. It is the point we wish to elucidate during the simultaneous clinical sessions of PIPOL 6.

On discourse and the language in the institution

The psychoanalytic orientation in institutions passes by way of an effort to say things well, or better, or differently. Instead of “he steals all the time”, we prefer: “he de-completes the Other”. Rather than saying “he’s really violent”, we prefer: ”he frequently passes to the act”, the passage to the act being the acted expression of unspoken words. Instead of “he’s hyperactive”, we prefer “enjoyment [jouissance] is rebounding in the body”.

This effort to tear the ambient discourse of the institution in its imaginary, education.