Body, discourse and social bond: a reading of Jacques Lacans Seminars XVI, XVII and XVIII

Author(s)

Luiz Eduardo de Vasconcelos Moreira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-12-19

Examining board members

Nelson da Silva Junior; Julio Cesar Lemes de Castro; Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

• Advisor: Nelson da Silva Junior

Abstract

This work intends to investigate the relationship amongst the notions of body, discourse and social bond in the so called Theory of four discourses of Jacques Lacan. The research started with a bibliographic survey (which does not intend exhaustive, but representative) of the possible readings made of this lacanian conceptualization. This survey allowed us to perceive some dispersion in the field of its application. Then we present a reading of Seminar XVII, The other side of psychoanalysis, delivered by Lacan in 1969-1970 and chosen for being the moment when the four discourses (namely, of the master, of the hysteric, of the analyst and of the university) are presented and conceptualized as modalities of social bond. In other words, we consider that this is the moment when the term discourse gains conceptual density and specificity. This reading is subsidized by a presentation of the seminars right before and after the aforementioned, so as to highlight the lacanian developments that lead to the formulation of the four discourses. This way, it is possible: 1) to compare the lacanian conceptualization with the readings that derive from it and 2) to sketch a notion of body that takes into account the theory of the four discourses (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/05545-0 - Body and psychoanalysis - thinking the body from the lacanian notion of discourse
• Grantee: Luiz Eduardo de Vasconcelos Moreira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master