Miren Arambourou-Mélèse
The Heirs of Don Juan
Deconstructing transmission guilty
Paris, Editions First Campaign, 2009.
Here is a moving book. In both senses of the word. It upsets the depth, intensity and poetry of his words, but it upsets too many certainties on which we rest without ever really being challenged.
Both creative and well-argued, polemical objective, respectful and iconoclast, is one of those books you can read only very slowly: it takes place every moment to think, but to dream.
Why this strange title "The heirs of Don Juan" and the subtitle even stranger: "deconstruct transmission guilty"? What heirs? What transmission? What guilt ? And most importantly, what (s) report (s) with psychoanalysis? The introduction
light shaped opening gives us some clues, but it would be a shame to give in this short article, brief answers to these questions when all the work in a weaving learned that combines history, sociology, literature, philosophy, linguistics, poetry, brings us gradually, in a Socratic journey, to ask ourselves and recognize the merits of the proposals suggested by Miren Arambourou-mingled. Here we see the development of a thought sure of its purpose, but allows himself with a very voluptuous many detours and meanderings because, regardless of the general line - the unspoken assumption that underlies the Freudian invention and its challenge - many side roads are available to us which is good venture, and each of which leads to great opportunities. I will mention just a few but I leave the reader the pleasure of discovering many more.
history first, starting with the character's story Don Juan is located in its various "environments" from dawn to dawn of classicism romanticism through the Enlightenment. And gradually emerges from this study, which appears only in the early historical, literary and musical, the person behind the character, the subject in the analytical sense of the term, with his ignorance and denial of the other in what he over time, denial of sexual difference, difference of generations.
Then the personal story of Freud, both rooted in his lineage and fate in an age when science and belief in its infallibility as opened new doors, the way itself opened and closed some of others, the assumptions we have made in this regard through his correspondence with his fiancee Martha, his friend Fliess, and Jung and Ferenczi.
So the history of analytic movement: an observation almost Botanical birth and development of this plant strange Freudian theory, the soil where it grew, the ideas that it was watered, weather disasters that went through and viruses that have attacked.
The way the author discusses the major theorists is exemplary in this respect, another sub-title of this book might be "The correct use of the Masters, or how to be neither nor Echo Narcissus. " Ferenczi, Winnicott, Lacan and many others, each has taken its place - we want to say its rightful place - in this mosaic.
Then the study of certain analytical concepts, such as sublimation, difficult subject if ever there was. Here, collected and pugnacious style only makes more fruitful question to know where "the line between acting out and the transition to work."
It also includes, but insists that the author ever, his interest, through his knowledge of Central Europe, the German language and linguistics, for another difference that gender and generation, difference may be much more difficult to theorise as much difficult to grasp: the divergent paths that can take thought for people of different language, a difference that seems to light only when the language offers for certain words ( Schuld, for example) a particular polysemy, but these words are just the tip of the iceberg. Another point on which we can think long and hard.
Besides writers, thinkers and poets whose quotes dot the book remind us at every moment: our heritage, our rich are much larger than what a some theory, expressed in a language sclerotic, might suggest.
And I come to what might be called feminism of good quality. The term "feminist" has received pejorative connotations if one hesitates to use it about this book. And yet ... Most women analysts have criticized the Freudian notion of penis envy. But, until now, dared to deconstruct the transmission guilty "to construct a book showing that Freudian theory is based entirely on the patriarchy. For this is the red thread throughout these considerations: the many reasons given for the choice of patriarchy by Freud to refer the theory he develops, "the women's game off," says the author, the continent which finds its cartographer .
And so the author takes us, slowly and subtlety that make the ultimate discovery even more disturbing to the subject of the book: the deep springs of Freudian theory, and torrents that devastated both institutions.
Fortunately the book does not stop there, accompanying us beyond the "deconstruction" evoked by the subtitle. There is also a construction work throughout the book. And in this regard, it could have been called, too, "War and Peace. For further demonstrate scholarly criticism subtle and ironic allusions, beyond the lucid evocation of struggle without thank you, like a thread question: things could they be otherwise? This book suggests a calm (I do not know if the author herself knew how often that word appears in his writing), that appeasement could bring, after all the devastation has caused institutional theory as a reversal of vision, recovery of the difference of generations, sexual difference, a lifting of denial, in short, as she says, a transmission that would not be guilty.
I would let him speak for the few lines that are sort of the core of his thinking: "The power of the mother is to guide the new-born, beyond the odor di femina that awakens his appetite, to the appeasement of his instinctual tensions, lending him a piece of body, which it can not be reduced. Faced with the paradoxical duality of the object of his desire, the child experienced the disappointment subsided: the purpose of appeasing his instinctual greed will swallow whole survives its destructiveness as long as it belongs to another (the mother). The mother of the host primary concern without being destroyed the voracity of what it recognizes as other infant and his at once. This melee that seems to terrify so many people is the first time that humanizes the small mammal born a man and a woman "(p. 165)
" The experience of disappointment subsided, "is Does not the high definition a successful psychoanalysis?
is in the audacity of this paradoxical dialectical thinking that this is the secret of this fascinating book that touches on all areas of our world "postmodern" and which, while allowing us to think about every moment on all facets of the human, calms us, us too: so many paths are open to us to think, to work ...
Maria Pierrakos
Le Coq Heron
Eres No. 199, December 2009.
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