About this Event
2 CE credits for NYS licensed psychoanalysts, clinical social workers, and psychologists
In the humanities and social sciences, questions of translation bring to the fore issues of the cultural context; this is where words take on their full meaning. When it comes to Trieb, the debates that have accompanied the history of translations of the term into several languages determine the very field of psychoanalysis: Trieb is a common German word: "was treibst du da?" meaning "what are you doing there? Trieb is used in several compound words: Triebregung, Triebschicksal. Thus, is Trieb a technical word limning complex isues of sexuality, or is it a common notion, hardly a concept? Might not Triebe in the plural be seen as grandiose, mythical beings, as Freud wrote? If so, why does he add that in clinical practice one never leaves the field of the drives ?
As we know, instinct is not drive. As Victor-Arthur Goldschmidt wrote in 2000 in Quand Freud voit la mer (Paris, Buchet-Chastel, Paris) in fact Lacan first "translated" Trieb into French as desire. Pulsion pushes, whereas desire pulls. Psychoanalysis does not ocupy the same site in each case, nor is the relationship to the language of drives and repetition as action identical. Should we follow Laplanche's assertion that psychoanalysis is "biologically misguided", given that Freud's use of the term allegedly remained faithful to the idea of a continuity between the biological and the sexual? Can we add that Deleuze and Guattari's "machines désirantes" [desiring machines] have had the function of posing the problem, even if they were unable to resolve it?
Monique David-Ménard has a double career as philosopher and practicing psychoanalyst. As the Director of the Centre d’études du vivant (2005-2011) she established the field of research “Gender and Sexualities” at the University Paris-Diderot/Paris 7. She has been invited to teach at a wide variety of universities wordwide: Ruhr University Bochum, Diego Portalès, Santiago de Chile, Universidad de Chile, Universidade de São Paulo, UNAM, Mexico, as well as Columbia University.
Her books include L’hysterique entre Freud et Lacan: corps et langage en psychanalyse (1983) published in English as Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: Body and Language in Psychoanalysis, (1989); Tout le plaisir est pour moi (2001); Deleuze et la psychanalyse: l’altercation (2005); Les constructions de l’universel, psychanalyse, philosophie (2009); Éloge des hasards dans la vie sexuelle (2011); Corps et langage en psychanalyse (2016); La Vie sociale des choses. L’animisme et les objets (2020).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
321 W 44th St suite 510, 321 West 44th Street, New York, United States
