On Aphanisis: A Note on the Dramaturgy of the Subject in Narrative Analysis

Abstract

The only advantage a psychoanalyst is allowed to take from his position-assuming that it is recognized as such-is to remember with Freud that on his subject the artist always precedes him, and that he has no business acting the psychologist where the artist blazes the trail for him (J. Lacan, Hommage fait a Marguerite Duras, du ravissement de Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras, Paris: Albatros, 1975) (transl. mine) You will also understand that, if I have spoken to you of the unconscious as of something that opens and closes, it is because its essence is to mark that time by which, from the fact of being born with the signifier, the subject is born divided. The subject is this emergence which, just before, as subject, was nothing, but which, having scarcely appeared, solidifies into a signifier (J. Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, ed. byJ-A. Miller, transl. Alan Sheridan, New York: Norton, 1978)

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