INCIDENCES OF THE ONLY INVENTION OF LACAN, THE "a" OBJECT
A BONUS (PLUS) OF THE UNCONSCIUOS STRUCTURED AS A LANGUAGE

DIAZ ROMERO Ricardo(1)

I want to put into discussion, in the Congress of Convergencia, some questions that are part of my practice and of my theories since a while ago. I make it with the hypothesis that are enunciated on the title and I introduce it with a Freud's appointment:

"In the better interpreted dreams we are usually forced to leave in darkness determined points, because we notice a point of convergence of the latent ideas, a knot impossible to loosen, but it has elements that contribute to the content I'm presenting. This is what we consider to be the navel of the dream, that is to say the point at which is bounded to the unknown. The latent ideas discovered in an analysis never arrive to a limit and, we have to allow them to get lost in the reticular fabric of our intellectual world. From a part but dense of this fabric rises the desire of dreaming" (2)

I found in this navel of dreaming, in this point at which the reticular fabric of our intellectual world is bound with the unknown and from a dense part of it, elevates the desire for dreaming. Something that I found the most precise freudian notion in a bonus of the reticular fabric of the unconsciuos, bonus (plus) caused by desire, cause from the uncompleteness of the universe of representations.

This point was, quickly, highlighted by Lacan from the beginnings of his theory of significant and of the unconsciuos structured as a language; this way in "L´instance de la lettre dans l´inconciente", it's an unfailing rest of the subject, and it's formalized, first in the s of significance and then as the metonimic effect, object after which goes the desire. Then, quietly, this bonus of the unconsciuos will be presented as:

a) as adalma, minimun ornate, that is a bonus of alterity, in a seminar about "Le transfertr ...";
b) then as a point at which is connected with the unknown it is the object of "L´angoise", the X Seminar, that comes to draw the Etwas of Freud's formula - (Angst - vor - Etwas)-;
c) dividing the subject, being missed of the symbolic of the unconscious, under the perception form of voice, look and the object of sacrifice to the dark gods in "Les quatre concepts ...";
d) like the object, making reference to the cut itself, whose effect is the subject in "Problèmes cruciauxs pour la psychanalyse ";
e) like the most proper libidinal, coming from me, and effectively perceived in the field of perceptum, that strange way of the subjective division that is neither homogeneous nor heterogeneous, but it is non- homogeneous; it dominates the whole year dedicated to "L´objet de la psychanalyse";
f) draw in the analyst's writing localization in his fall of the Subject supposedly to Know, which presented the unconsciuos in its cure, was founded in "L´acte psychanalytique";
g) then is precisely indicated as a bonus of the S2, bonus at whose non falling, installs it as a fourth element where there's no effect of the discourse without words, in "D´un Autre à l´autre " and in "L´anvers de la psychanalyse";
h) it is in "Encore" as the writing of the enjoyable substance and reading of love-;
i) it will be handled condition of the difference among three and tresse - another time a knot impossible to loosen, tyre that constitutes the part but dense of this reticular fabric, from where then rises the desire, starting from the introduction of the Borromeo knot and of the nodal writing; and until the end of its inventor's teaching.

This way, insisting, quietly, the only invention of Lacan, persues, illuminates, finds, calls, anguish and identify its inventor who, faithful to the freudian unconsiuos and working with its invention, it doesn't cease from going further.

Then the "a" object, his only invention, where Lacan approaches to Freud in connection of the appointment of the Traumdeutung with which I began. It approaches as an inventor and at the same time, it's worth recognise it, it separate for that same fact, since that, from an invention, the less you can say is that if something was no there, it's like something that separates the waters. Starting from this separation that interrogates us as analysts, on the concecuencies of this lacanian advance about the freudian unconscious and of the differences that that concecuencies determined in our practice, at least, in the following enumeration which is not taxative:

1) in the installment of an analysis
2) in the making up of "The analyst discourse", in which the agent is the "a" object.
3) in the freudian psychopathology, that coming of the destins of the representation in the unconsciuos: repression, denial, forclosure, and, specially in those reactions that have as reference a problem of the object: whether it is for the encounter of anguish, phobia, and fetishism or the loss of pain, melancholy and depression.
4) In the fundamentation of the intervention that couldn't be called sensu strictu, interpretations, if we can call it interpretation which place its fundament in the formation of the unconsciuos.
5) In relationship between art and psychoanalysis. Specially in that relation founded in the development of freudians resources that he calls sublimation and which is evidently that Lacan did not go with it from since the in wich defines sublimation as: passing the object to the dignity of the thing and until the moment he says that the same is not forcedly art but it cannot be another thing, something that reproduce the lack rotating around the "a" object.
6) In the ending of the analysis renewing the freudian reach of end and endless, with the introduction of the difference between "a" object and -j as it is done in "Proposition du 9 October " and "L´acte psychanalytique".
7) In relation to the freudian conception that Psique is extension, when the "a" object, such as the voice or the look, offers us the possibility to explore, together with our analizers, the faidings of the constitution of the extension.
8) In the boarding of what adictions taught us, the complications before the absence of what the capital sin is named as "greed" or the strange sexuality, not properly fetishist with the objects "a", look and voice.

An illustration for this statement: I found that although Lacan didn't make explicit references to the phobia on the XI Seminar, in the chapters about The eye and the look, give us elements that are fundamental for the boarding of the structure of some phobias like the ones I presented, a fading of a point that contitutes, more each time, in each pulsation the space and the square in which the look locates the subject; elements that, evidently, are outside the reticular fabric of the unconsciuos, and therefore outside the psychoanalytic boarding.

This is updated as long as we notice a return to where the phobia was presented more frequently in times in which the same one was decribed by Wesphal and Legrand - according to the S. Vallon story in L'espace at la phobie -, mode at which, like then, it is named as "panic attacks" and which is evidently shown that the nucleus of this structural modality is referred to the space and the pulsional scopic circuit, and that, therefore, it takes a privileged function in the cure of the inclusion, like the bonus of the unconscious structured as the language of the "a" object like a look, leave us with open queries on the updatings that it would have been in accepting the transfer of place of this object and the risk of non accepting it, impeding the unconscious doing.

I do finish transmiting a question: will we, the psychoanalysts, be able of being updated to the lacanian advance which implies this invention that puts us to the center of today and their problems?

1. AME en la Escuela de Psicoanálisis Sigmud Freud - Rosario. T: 00-54-341-4250805 - Email: diazromero@infovia.com.ar
2. S. Freud - "La interpretación de los sueños" - Capítulo 7 - A) El olvido de los sueños.

Translation: Angelina Sguassero