Sinthom
In the theory of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the Sinthom or Sinthome ( French ) is that part of the symptom that forms the core of the subject. In contrast to the symptom, the sinthome is not a signifier ; it does not refer to anything else. So it resists any interpretation and is ultimately not resolvable. It belongs to the realm of the real insofar as it represents the way in which the subject organizes his enjoyment .
Lacan introduced the term “ Sinthome ” late - in Seminar XXIII: Le Sinthome from 1975 to 1976; and even there he sometimes still uses the conventional spelling “symptom” when he writes about the Sinthom. Lacan argues that "the symptom can only be defined as the way in which each subject enjoys the unconscious [jouit] in so far as the unconscious determines it".
In Lacan's model of the Borromean rings of the real , the imaginary and the symbolic , the Sinthom forms an additional fourth ring, which is formed by the “ Reuleaux triangle ” in the center of the three rings. The Sinthom is the element that holds the knot together in the first place. Insofar as it forms the center of the subject in this way - that "what allows one to live" - according to Lacan the task of psychoanalysis is not to dissolve the Sinthome, but rather to identify with it.
Slavoj Žižek's book title Love Your Symptom Like Yourself (1991) is an allusion to this necessary identification. Žižek writes:
- “And insofar as a core of enjoyment persists in the symptom, which resists any interpretation, the end of the analysis is perhaps not to be sought in an interpretative resolution of the symptom, but in an identification with it, in an identification of the subject with that which cannot be analyzed Period, with this particular 'pathological' tic , which ultimately forms the only support of his existence. "
literature
- Jacques Lacan : Le Séminaire XXIII. Le sinthome (= Champ freudien (Paris) ) (1975–76). Ed. du Seuil, DL, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-02-079666-X , ISBN 978-2-02-079666-8 ( Text constitution: Jacques-Alain Miller; not yet published in German; English translation by Jacques Lacan in Ireland , see web links).
- Dylan Evans: Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. From the English by Gabriella Burkhart. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85132-190-1 .
- Engl. Original title: An introductory dictionary of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Routledge, London / New York 1996, ISBN 0-415-13522-2 .
- Slavoj Žižek : Love your symptom like yourself! Jacques Lacan's Psychoanalysis and the Media. Red. Revised: Thomas Hübel. Merve, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88396-081-0 .
Web links
- Jacques Lacan: Joyce and the symptom. The seminar, book XXIII. Translated into English by Cormac Gallagher. Part 1 (PDF; 11.2 MB); Part 2 (PDF; 10.3 MB) at Lacan in Ireland. Collected Translations and Papers by Cormac Gallagher
- Gérard Crovisier: Reconstruction of Lacan's drawings in Seminar XXIII at Lituraterre
- Rolf Nemitz: Deciphering “The Sinthom”. Commentary on Lacan's seminar 23 of 1975/76, “ Deciphering the Sinthom” at Lacan
- Dieter Wenk: Herr der Fadenringe, review of the French edition of Seminar XXIII at textem.de
- pet / bun: Joyce and Lacan's verbal madness. James Joyce, "le saint homme" in the "23. Séminaire ”by Jacques Lacan ( Memento from March 11, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) from Berliner Literaturkritik , April 14, 2005, accessed on May 18, 2016.
- Ulrike Kadi: Old villains. » Paul Verhaeghe : New studies of old villains: a radical reconsideration of the Oedipus complex . New York: Other Press 2009 is the focus of a program of the Philosophical Brocken . In this little volume, Verhaeghe follows some of Freud and Lacan's reflections on father, mother, enjoyment, identity and the Sinthome. Mona Hahn, Ulrike Kadi, Judith Kürmayer, Eva Laquièze-Waniek, Robert Pfaller and Karl Stockreiter will discuss with Georg Gröller, who is presenting the book . Music: klezmer reloaded (Shevchenko / Golebiowski). November 23, 2011 «( mp3; 75.5 MB ), accessed on May 18, 2016.