Pour un dialogue : Henri Ey et Jacques Lacan

Abstract

Toward a dialogue: Henry Ey and Jacques Lacan. The relationship between Henry Ey and Jacques Lacan lasted throughout their lives, and beyond their irreducible theoretical divergence on the definition of the unconscious, a common respect for their positions unified them. Psychiatry and psychoanalysis found room for dialogue through their most innovative representatives. Bonneval's colloquia in 1946, as in 1960, were an occasion for them to present their points of view. But the colloquium in 1960, and especially Lacan's writing of his article for the book L'Inconscient, marked a break in the position he took in psychoanalysis as much as in their theoretical exchanges, without changing his respect for Ey, called by him a “civilizer.” From this time on, Lacan pursued only the development of a theory and clinic of the object a, which he invented. Without giving up his previous references, his teaching took a new dimension, constantly searching and at the same time difficult to access. The dialogue between psychiatry and psychoanalysis was profoundly changed. What remains of it today? There is no rejoicing in the statement. The clinical and practical resources of Lacan's post-1964 teaching, not well known today though it concerns the whole field of mental pathology, including the psychoses, could restore this dialogue.