Les preuves de l’existence du corps lacanien

Abstract

AimsThis article demonstrates the importance of the body in Lacanian theory and psychoanalytic practice. The article aims to prove that Lacan's theory of psychoanalysis is not only based on language but also on a new theory of the body, specific to psychoanalysis. MethodThe method chosen by the author consists in studying the different moments in Lacanian theory, and in showing the main paradigms of the body that emerge within it. From the beginning to the end of his teaching, Jacques Lacan gives to the body in psychoanalysis a specific function. ResultsThis article shows that the Lacanian body is not the biological body, but it is the body of the libido, the body of drives, and also the body of anxiety. The first Lacanian body is an imaginary body. It is the mirror body, the body that can be seen. The second Lacanian body is the body of fantasy, which is at the meeting point between the imaginary and the symbolic. The third Lacanian body is the body of anxiety, the body of “object a”. Lacan calls it an organism, the organism of the libido. DiscussionThis article shows that psychoanalysis is not only an intellectual experience, but an experience in which the body occupies a central position. ConclusionThe last Lacanian conception of the body opens onto a discussion about the body and trauma. This last conception of the body introduces a new conception of language in psychoanalysis, which provides a new conception of interpretation in psychoanalysis.