The logic of fantasy and the psychoanalyst's studio: a small introduction to Seminar XIV

Abstract

This work serves as an introduction to Lacan's Seminar XIV, first situating it within the broader trajectory of Lacan’s teaching by relating it to both earlier and later phases. Furthermore it highlights the double movement that Lacan undertakes in these lessons: on one hand, he performs a logification of the analytic experience, bending the elements of formal logic to express their explanatory power in relation to psychoanalytic practice; on the other, he proposes for the first time a “corporization” of the Other as located in the body. At the center of this double movement lies the fantasy, conceived as a structure that orientates desire and supports the drive, and which must be isolated and subjectivized through the analytic process.