Антигона в башне из слоновой кости: от этики к эпистемологии психоанализа

Abstract

The Gabriel Tupinambá’s Desire for Psychoanalysis exists in the context of the institutional crisis of Lacanian organizations that occurred against the backdrop of the 2017 French presidential elections. Tupinambá’s political statement contains an underlying question about the (un)possibility of an epistemology of psychoanalysis, about the existence of limits to psychoanalytic discourse. It is tempting to close this question of the limit of the utterance, for example, by drawing a parallel with the topological limit of the setting, and thus leave it unresolved. Tupinamba also warns against this, showing how the dead ends of Lacanian theory, its lacunae, are filled by clinical or institutional answers. The author shows how Lacanian theory, in reasoning about psychoanalytic discourse and borrowing “redundant” philosophical, logical, cybernetic, linguistic models, implicitly substitutes the problem of epistemology for the problem of ethics. He uses the image of Antigone, whose desire is synonymous with that of the analyst, who in this case finds himself in the precarious status of being alive and voluntarily imprisoned in an ivory tower rather than dead and immured in a cave.