What is the difference between a believer in confession and an analyst’s patient?
The believer confesses to the priest all that he knows, while the patient confesses to the analyst what he cannot know, psychoanalyst Juan David Nazio answers. He is a colleague and participant in the seminars of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and one of the best commentators on his most complex theory. Nazio singles out and considers several of Lacan’s main concepts: the unconscious (which is “structured like a language”), the symptom (which is of a sign nature), enjoyment (and its three states: phallic enjoyment, surplus enjoyment and the enjoyment of the Other), the “object a” (there is in mind, the first letter of the word “autre” is another, but “object a” is not the other itself, but the answer to the question “Who is the other?”), fantasy and body.
IOI, 176 p.