On Tuesday 10 August was held at the headquarters of The FU a meeting to talk to Jorge German about psychoanalysis and politics in the era we live. In a participatory dialogue with attendees, guided by the question of what psychoanalysis can tell to politics? recalled that some years ago, his friend Nicholas Casullo invited him to participate in a journal volume Confines: "Think left" about that and taking into account that he called "Lacanian Left", was not going to speak generically.
commented that he accepted it as an opportunity to try to live the tension between two terms that are not made to go together: left and Lacanian. Thinking without expectations and without haste to resolve, cast, or domesticate reconcile the tension between the words left and Lacanian. That was the starting point from which three years ago, Jorge German exhibitions invites us to turn in thinking. It does so in style, first person, as a bet, as an attempt, in one dimension always present conjectural where the open dots to give a new turn.
began the conversation by checking that the thought of Lacan are marked the impasses of the emancipatory project of the left. That psychoanalysis would be a symptom of the Left prepared to indicate what the speech is not left field to develop the Marxist left grieving.
With a question opens the play of his turns in thinking, as he himself said that demand caution and boldness: what it means to be left ?, if psychoanalysis teaches that the discontents of civilization is irreducible, if the subject is dominated by a repetition that is alien to all social logical process, if the identities which are caught in narcissistic logic can not lead a real transformation. However, it seems that now is the time left no can ignore how it's done man, what is the subject and the subjective process.
he presented an exciting overview: use the same critical code and re-use Lacan to articulate a new way of thinking where the issue of subject and subjectivity occupies a new place. Especially emphasized that you're interested in psychoanalysis to philosophy, and for this reason care Laclau's thinking he wants to bring psychoanalysis to politics.
From which returned again and again the question of what psychoanalysis can tell to politics? and their reflections in a sustained dialogue with key points of the thinking of Marx, Freud, Lacan, Laclau, Althusser, Badiou and Zizek.
Thus, it was skirting questions on the left, the social, the subject, identity, ideology in relation to the ghost and finally, on the notion of emancipation. In an effort of scholarship, it was possible to recognize that some of the variations of the current thinking came from his book "For a Lacanian Left ...", but others seem to find them in his upcoming book, "Lacan, policy in question .... "
Averaging the end of the meeting, Jorge German established an open dialogue with the audience, where he had a diverse audience in which there were missing their usual friends and supporters of his travels. To name a few, among them were Paula Biglieri, Guillermo Belaga, Alejandra Glaze, Osvaldo Delgado, Horacio Vommaro, Jaime Sorin, Clarisa Kisiliof, Gloria Perello, Silvia Bermúdez, Walter Capelli, Miguel Rep, Marisa Morao, Julio German, Clara Schor - Landman.
In a climate of enthusiasm for the closure gave a preview of its next book, only the inscription that reads "At the time, that with the new, again, again and again."
