Session of 23rd January 1957 & 30th January 1957 - 8th & 9th session of Seminar IV - now published in translation
Julia Evans
Jacques Lacan
Seminar IV (1956 - 1957)
The Object Relation & Freudian Structures
Translation by the Earl’s Court Collective:
Alma Buholzer
Greg Hynds
Jesse Cohn
Note on the translation
This English translation has been produced from a transcription of the original stenographs of the fourth year of Lacan’s public seminars. The translation proceeds from this unedited text and, as such, aims to represent Lacan’s spoken French without abridgement. For reference, page numbers have been given in the left margin that correspond to the French version of the seminar, published by Éditions du Seuil in 2007 and edited by Jacques-Alain Miller.
It should also be noted that this will be an evolving work, not a denitive translation, and that sessions will be added to the collection as and when they are completed.
The work is oered for personal and private use only and not for commercial publication.
Sessions 1-9 now published and available from www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
References and notes - see Seminar IV : The Object Relation & Freudian Structures 1956-1957 : begins 21st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=11980
8. Seminar IV : 23rd January 1957 - Fp131 published 8th May 2020
Para 1 : , ‘our famous game of odds and evens’
See Seminar II ; 30th March 1955 & Seminar II : 27th April 1955 which refers to ‘The Purloined Letter’ : See Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis: 1954-1955: begins 17th November 1954 : Jacques Lacan or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=1141
Para 2 : “it is no longer up to him whether what he has in his hands [the stolen letter (Purloined Letter)] …… “ : This refers to Edgar Allen Poe’s tale ‘The Purloined Letter’, published December 1844, as does Jacques Lacan’s seminar. Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’ : 26th April 1955 : Jacques Lacan or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=6224
Para 12 The Interpretation of Dreams : 1900 : Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=655 SE IV & V : Probably p541 of SE V , Part VII The psychology of the dream-process, Section (B) Regression.
Para 12 ‘which I gave, following Lagache’s report on transference, ‘ : This is Intervention on the Transference (Paris): Seminar on ‘Dora’ – 1950-1951: October 16th 1951: Jacques Lacan or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=285 [Delete & Daniel Lagache, 'Some Aspects of Transference', IJPA, vXXlV, 1 (1953), pp.1-10] : See Some aspects of transference : 4th April 1951 (London?) : Daniel Lagache or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12538
Para 12 : Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria (‘Dora’): 1901 [1905] : Sigmund Freud : SE VII p7-114 Available from Richard G. Klein’s website www.Freud2Lacan.com or here
Para 20 ‘perversion is the negative of neurosis’,
NOTE: this is a misquote! Freud actually states : Psychoneuroses are, so to speak, the negative of perversions.
From “Psychoneuroses are, so to speak, the negative of perversions.” P50-51 of “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (1905 [1901]) Sigmund Freud : SE VII p7-114 : Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com or here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Fragment_Hysteria.pdf
9. Seminar IV : 30th January 1957- Fp151 : Translated by Earl’s Court Collective : Published April 2021
Further note on a reference
This session is probably a deconstruction of the position Wladimir Granoff gives in
Fetishism: The Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real : 1956 : Lacan Jacques and Wladimir Granoff or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=1122 to which Jacques Lacan’s name was added. The text was published in a book edited by A Sándor Lorand. This paper by the book’s editor, see Fetishism in Statu Nascendi : July 1929 (Oxford) : Alexander Sandor Lorand or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12766 is Footnote 2 in this text, and probably targeted by the phrase ‘Kleinian authors’.
Para 1 : ‘fundamental schema’ – see Classified index of the major concepts, Commentary on the graphs : 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller : from ‘Écrits: a selection’ or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=305
Para 2 : ‘Unsuitable Substitutes for the Sexual Object - Fetishism’ : p153-155 SE VII of Essay I The Sexual Aberration, in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Sigmund Freud, Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com see here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Sexuality.pdf and Fetishism : 1927 : Sigmund Freud, SEXXI : Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com , download here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Fetishism.pdf
Para 6 : Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’ : 26th April 1955 : Jacques Lacan : See here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=6224
Para 8 : Probably Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes (1925) Sigmund Freud, SE XIX p241-258. F2L NO F2L
Para 8 : Freud: From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (The ‘Wolf Man’): 1914 [published 1918b] : Sigmund Freud [Standard Edition: Vol 17 (SE XVII): p3 or Penguin Freud Library (PFL) : Vol 9: p225, Published at Richard G. Klein’s site www.Freud2Lacan.com and available here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Wolfman.pdf : Section VII Anal Erotism and the Castration Complex : [p2793] SEXVII p84
This is the only place where Freud uses the phrase ‘idea of castration’
Para 11& 16 : Possibly Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence : 1938 [published 1940e] : Sigmund Freud, SEXXIII p277-278 : Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com download here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Splitting.pdf
Para 16 : Possibly SEXXIII p277-278 of Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence : 1938 [published 1940e] : SEXXIII p273- Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com download here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Splitting.pdf
Para 17 : Fetishism (1927) Sigmund Freud, Probably SEXXI P155-156
Para 18 : Probably SEXXI p154 of Freud, Sigmund, “Fetishism” (1927) Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com , download here https://freud2lacan.b-cdn.net/Fetishism.pdf
Para 20 : Freud, Sigmund, “Fetishism” (1927), SEXXI (1927-1931) Penguin Freud Library: vol 7: p345 : SEXXI p155 Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com , download here https://freud2lacan.b-cdn.net/Fetishism.pdf
Para 20 : See for example Chapter IV, Childhood Memories & Screen Memories of The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Forgetting, Slips of the Tongue, Bungled Actions, Superstitions and Errors (1901) Sigmund Freud, SE VI. pp. 8-12 : published by www.Freud2Lacan.com : available here : http://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/The_Psychopathology_of_Everyday_Life.pdf
Para 21 : Freud, Sigmund, “Fetishism” (1927), Penguin Freud Library: vol 7: p345 : SEXXI p153-4 Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com , download here https://freud2lacan.b-cdn.net/Fetishism.pdf
Para 23 : Freud, Sigmund, “Fetishism” (1927), Penguin Freud Library: vol 7: p345 : SEXXI p152 : Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com , download here https://freud2lacan.b-cdn.net/Fetishism.pdf
Para 24 : Female Sexuality : 1931b : Sigmund Freud, : SEXXI p239 & SE XXI p240-243 & Published at www.Freud2Lacan.net download here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Female_Sexuality.pdf where Freud quotes Early Stages of the Œdipus conflict : 3rd September 1927 Innsbruck [1928] : Melanie Klein or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=11978
& see notes to Fetishism in Statu Nascendi : July 1929 (Oxford) : Alexander Sandor Lorand or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12766
Para 25 : Klein (1928) op. cit. p168 : Probably Early Stages of the Œdipus conflict : 3rd September 1927 Innsbruck [1928] : Melanie Klein or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=11978
Para 27 : Alfred Binet, Le fetichisme dans l'amour [Fetishism in love]. Revue Philosophique, 24 ( 1887) : help finding this reference much appreciated!
Para 28 : Some Observations on the Ego Development of the Fetishist : 1939 : Sylvia Payne or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12485
Para 28 : A Contribution to the Study of Fetishism : 7th February 1940 : William Gillespie or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12508
Para 28 Pregenital Patterning : 1952 : Phyllis Greenacre or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12512 &/or Re-Evaluation of the Process of Working Through : 5th May 1956 : Phyllis Greenacre or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12510
Para 28 : Object-Relation Changes in the Analysis of a Fetishist : 1954 : Dugmore Hunter or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12533
Para 28 : reference to Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is probably Certain Relationships Between Fetishism and Faulty Development of the Body Image : 1953 : Phyllis Greenacre or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12222
Para 28 : Freud, Sigmund, “Fetishism” (1927), SEXXI (1927-1931) Penguin Freud Library: vol 7: p345 : SEXXI P154 : Published at www.Freud2Lacan.com , download here https://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/Fetishism.pdf
Para 32 : Sylvia Payne (1939) Op. Cit. p165-166 : See Some Observations on the Ego Development of the Fetishist : 1939 : Sylvia Payne or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12485
Para 38 : Delinquent Acts as Perversions and Fetishes : 26th July 1955 (Geneva) : Melitta Schmideberg or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12536