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Ethics

A collection of 2 issues

The Real & Ethics

Speaking about the ethics of psychoanalysis, Lacan says, It is because the real is not easy to access, so to speak, that it servers us as the reference point around which the revising of ethics must revolve. I think this is an important statement, because it says that the real

The Ethical Position of the Analyst

In a fantastic paragraph in his 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics, John Rajchman says, Psychoanalysis is not a medical treatment any more than the unconscious is a medical disorder —a dysfunction or maladaptation. Rather the unconscious is a “structural or constitutive fact about ourselves as speaking subjects, and analysis