The difficulty of the Lacanian text

Authors

  • Flávio Fernandes Fontes UFRN
  • Cynthia Pereira de Medeiros UFRN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v15i2.20892

Keywords:

Lacan, style, criticism, psychoanalysis, transmission

Abstract

 

Trying to comprehend the difficulty of the Lacanian text through a theoretical study, we compiled interpretations by commentators that address the subject of the Lacanian style from a critical perspective and from those who justify and defend its legitimacy, using also some of Lacan’s own work. The analysis of these commentators’s work has driven us to list eight different explanations to the Lacanian style. It is emphasized the importance of the debate between the scientific current, that demands clarity and condemns the characteristics of the Lacanian style as inadequate to a scientific discourse, and the subjective current, that justifies it as an intentional and particular way of transmitting psychoanalysis.

 

Keywords: Lacan; style; criticism; psychoanalysis; transmission.

Author Biographies

Flávio Fernandes Fontes, UFRN

Psicólogo e Mestrando do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN).

Cynthia Pereira de Medeiros, UFRN

Psicóloga e Psicanalista. Doutora em Educação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professora adjunta do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN).

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Fontes, F. F., & de Medeiros, C. P. (2011). The difficulty of the Lacanian text. Interação Em Psicologia, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v15i2.20892

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2011)

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