Publication of Jacques Lacan's Seminar IV - sessions 1 to 7 (up to 16th January 1957)
Julia Evans
I would say, therefore, that the analyst’s engagement through some other means than the relation of speech, whilst it is not developed, nor even conceived, is indicated nonetheless. Melanie Klein points out in her arguments that, on the contrary, nothing is more like this than the analysis of a child, for even at an extremely premature age, what is already at stake in the unconscious of the child has nothing to do with the real parents, contrary to what Anna Freud says. Already between the ages of two and a half and three, the situation is greatly modified in relation to what can be observed in the real relations. It is already very much a question of an extensive dramatisation which is deeply foreign to the child’s actual family relations, that we can observe in the case of a child who had been raised as an only child by a figure who lived very far away from the child’s parents, an old aunt, which placed him in a completely isolated and dual relationship with a single person. It could be observed that this child nonetheless re-constituted an entire family drama with a father, a mother, and even brother and sister rivals – I cite.
Is anybody able to identify what it is that Jacques Lacan is citing, please?
Julia Evans
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Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst,