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 CONTENTS

Eorronrnr
7 Marie-H€lbne Brousse,Family Games

THEMATICSECTION:FAMILYDRAMAS,FAMILYTRAUMAS
GnownrcPlrrus
13 JacquesLacan,Noteon the Child
15 Darriel Roy,Introductionto "Noteon the ChiA"
17 VdroniqueEydotx, Datiny ofthe Embbm ofthe Intnsion Complm
23 Jacques-Alain Miller, In theDirectionofAdnlzrcence
34 Miller, Vbbnt Children 3",
Jacques-Alain
43 Philipp.lacadee,Hna DoW Undmand.rhePbenomera ofVnbnceinYoungPeopb?
*We
56 Anne Edan, dn not Choose our Family"SomeOientationsfor PluralPractice
in an Institution

THrDrnlocut
6l Eva Illouz, The Dialogue: "Family Inuestments

Nrw KruornNcs or KrrHANDKrN

( i , \,'( \. l\t ll'f
73 Miller,Affairsof tbeFamilyin theUnconscious
Jacques-Alain
78 Laura Sokolowsky, Freud, His Daughter and the Other Woman
81 Christel Simler, Delphine Porcheron and Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella,
What's a Family in the Eya of the Laut?
98 Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakofi SurrogateMother(!) OL R ( O \ CRTS: T:
101 FrangoisAnsermet, An ObseruatoryLooking Out onto the Future ofthe Family

Nrw PueLrcATroNs
rNOURFrrlo
105 FrangoisAnsermet,TheArt ofMaking Child.ren rDIT L
108 to Issuesin PsychiatricDiagnosis:An Interuiew
Stijn Vanheule,A Lacanian Response
uith Stiin Vanheule
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ARcHrvr:
GunrrnnroN Dorro
113 Cary Genosko,Innoduoion n Filix Guattai, A GameofScrabblzwith l^amn
ll7 "YouDoWat I Theorise"
laura Sokolowsl<y,
F{\tItY TRAUMAS
118 FdlixGuamari,AGameofSaabblctaithl^amn

FORMATIONS
OF THEANATYST
124 Chantal Bonneau,TheAMS: Partner-Symptom?
', .,::.(;ion COmp/a
128 Dalila Arpin, Analytic lVingsand SocialFeet

,,t tt ofl4obnce youngpeopb? Rroucrorus

" in 132 CarolineDoucet, TheRecipe-I34Fabian Fajnwaks,TheMeanders ofJouissance
' ),:cntationsfor plural practice
- 136 HdlbneGuilbaud,Losinga Child - I37 Jdr6meLecaux,Haned Does
Not Dissolue - 139 Dalila Arpin, A Slip ofthe Signature- 141 laurent Dupont,
DreamandInterpretation -An kperiencein Solindz- 143DominiqueHolvoet,
Explicit Signsof the End of an Analysis- 146 Daniel Pasqualin,Loueand
Mammograpb TrackingShot- 147 YdroniqueVoruz, "Sha/lowTongue"
- I49 Eric laurent, TheOutsidzMeaning Benaeen Sublimationand Corporisation
,ii0nscl0us
. C T IN IC A TW OR K
/:,t..rWOman
156 PhilippeCarpentier,The\Veight - 'Berch"
ofWords
*-::.r Caracciolo di Torella,
160 AngelinaHarari,GrandmothersTo&ry

' ',: :i,e Future OU R CON GR E S S E S

ofthe Famity 164 Lilia Mahjoub, In a StateofTiansference
-Wild, Political, Psychoanalytic
174 Anna Aromi and Xavier Esqud,TheOrdinaryPsychosesand the Others,Undzr Ti,aruference

ADIEU
182 Serge Cottet, The Learning Yearsof Psychoanalysis
186 Christiane Alberti, fudith, The CauseIncarnate
 GnowrNGPnrNS

This issue onfamily opens uith Jacques Lacan's "Note on the Child",
a text which combines two sbort notes uritten by Lacan at the request
ofJenny Aubry. It is followed by Daniel Roy sformalisation of tbe axes
that the Note ffirsfor child analysis in the Lacanian Orientation.
Vironique Eydoau tben tahes us through the successiaestages of tbe
logical construction which Lacan mahes of the Augustinian aignette
of the child seeing his littlc riaal suspended to tbe motber's breast
to elicit the structural stahes of the intrusion complex,

Norr oN THECnrLD
JacquesLacan

I t seemsthat if we look at the failure of utopian communities, Lacan's

I position evokesthe following dimension.
I The function of residue that the conjugal family supports (and
I thereby maintains) in the evolution of societieshighlights the irre-
ducibiliry of a form of transmission - one that is of a different order than
that of life consideredasthe satisfactionof needs- but one that has a subjec-
tive constitution, implying a relationship to a desirethat is not anonymous.
The functions of the mother and the father are to be judged on the basis
of such a requirement. For the mother: insofar as her care bears the mark
of an individualised interest,even if via her own lacks.For the father: insofar
as his name is the vector of the embodiment of the Law in desire.
In the conception of it developedbyJacquesLacan, the child's symptom
is located in the position of a responseto what is symptomatic in the family
structure.
In this context, a symptom, which is the fundamental fact of analytic
experience,can be defined as representing the truth.
A symptom may representthe truth of the family couple. This is the most
complex case,but it is also the one that is most open to our intervention.

Originally publishedas "Deux notessur I'Enfant", Ornicar?No. 37 (1986), pp.l3-14, and as "Note
sur I'enfant", Autresirits, Seuil,Paris,2001, pp. 373-375.Firstpublishedin Englishin Ana$sis,No.2,
Melbourne Centre for PsychoanalwicResearch,Australia, 1990.

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CrowingPains

The articulation is much more limited when the symptom that comes
to dominate arisesfrom the subjectiviry of the mother. In this casethe child
is directly concerned as the correlate of a fantasy. , rf
If the gap beween the identification with the ego ideal and the piece
taken from the mother's desire lacks the mediation that is normally
provided by the father's function, it leavesthe child susceptible to every
kind of fantasmaticcapture.He becomesthe mother's'object' and his sole
function is to reveal the truth of this object.
The child realisesthe presenceof what JacquesLacan designatesas objet
a tn fanasy.
By substituting himself for this object, the child saturatesthe mode of
1.:
lack whereby (the mother's) desire is particularised, whatever her specific
structure - neurotic, perverseor psychotic.
He alienatesin himself all possible accessby the mother to her own \,
truth through giving it body, existenceand even the requiremenr to be
protected.
The somatic symptom gives the greatest possible guarantee to rhis
misrecognition fmiconnaissance];it is the inexhaustible resource that,
depending on the case,may tesdfy to guilt, serveas a fetish, or incarnate a
primordial refusal.
In short, in the dyadic relationship with the mother the child givesher,
in immediately accessibleform, what the masculine subject lacks: the very
object of his existenceappearing in the real. As a consequence,the child is
open to greater subornation in fantasy in a manner commensuratewith
what is real in what he presents.

Tlanslatedby RussellGrigg

14 The Lacanian Review No. 4

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Iianslated by RussellGrigg
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"NorE oN THECHILD"
Daniel Rov
I acquesLacan wrote the "Note on the Child" in 1969 at the requestof
I Jenny Aubry a paediatricianwho headeda hospital unit in paediatrics,
and a psychoanalystmember of the Ecole Freudiennede Paris.This
I
t fundamental text lays the foundations for child analysis in the
Lacanian orientation. It was first known to French readersas two seParate
nores,before being brought together,as they are in the English version here,
when Jacques-AlainMiller edited the Aunes icrits collection in 2001. Prior
to Jacques-AlainMillers careful revision, these two texts, taken as distinct
from each other, produced a disjunction berween rwo elements that
preciselyneed to be consideredtogether in the analytic practicewith chil-
dren: on the one hand, the family structure; and on the other, the childt
symPtom.
tilf,hat are the main axesof the "Note"?
1. Lacan does not shy away from placing the family in a category that
precludesall forms of idealisation.It has a "function of residue"in the
evolution of societies.This gives psychoanalystsa lot of freedom when
it comes to accepting the most diverse family configurations.
2. For it is on this residue that rests a necessaryfunction that is "irre-
ducible" ro any subjectiveconstitution: transmission.To the question
of what is passedon in a family, lacaris answer is an embodieddesire,
not an anonymous one.
3. This is what gives way to a diffraction into rwo avenues for this
embodied desire: the path of lack, and the path of the name. The
distinction made here by Lacan between the function of the mother and
the function of the father makes no claims as to the gendered identity
of whoever comes to embody thesefunctions.
4. The only truth that a family can give a child is a transmission operating
on the vectors of lack and name. It is an enigmatic, "symptomatic"
rruth, always falling short of a responsethat would say what the ttans-
mission of life is.
The author is an AMS (Analyst Member of the School)' and member of the tcR and NI-S.
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Crowing Pains

5 . In this respect,Lacan takesa decisivestep,which I earlier said was foun-

dational for child analysis:the child's symptom is a responseto the Drs
symptomatic truth at the heart of the family structure. To understand
the symptom as the childt subjective responseto the enigmatic opaciry OF TH E
harboured by his or her family is far from the genetic, biological, or even
psychological causaliry this symptom is sometimes said to stem from!
6. The distinction that Lacan developsin the rest of the "Note" remains
extremely rich and fertile from a clinical point of view, as has often been
commented upon: on the one hand, the symptom represents"the truth
of the family couple"; on the other hand, the symptom "arisesfrom the
subjectiviry of the mother". Let's note one particular aspecthere: the
"family couple" appearslike one of the possiblemodalities for the incar-
nation of desire in its double function of lack and law. The other
modaliry designatesthe fact that it is the child him/herself who incar-
nates the object of the fantasy: "the child saturatesthe mode of lack
whereby (the mother's) desireis particularised." If there is no longer any
transmission of lack, what remains of desire?There remains a capricious
law against which the childs symptom is essentiallya defence.
6. Following the thread of his deciphering ofwhat I call "embodied struc-
ture"; at the end of the text Lacan emphasisesthe "somatic symptom"
insofar as it comes to augment, for a mother or father, the child's
"requirement to be protected". Lacan underlines that here lies an open
road for a mother or a father to misrecognisethe truth of her or his
desire, and for the child, to incarnate the place of an object. The ever-
expanding category of "children with special needs" requires that
psychoanalystsand mental health practitioners in the analytic orienta-
tion should not shy away from the rwo facesof the ffuth of the child's
symptom: a vocal responseto the truth of the family couple, and a mute
responseto the place of object that every subject occupies when they
come into the world. ,

tanslated bv Nicolas Boileau

16 The Lacanian Review No. 4