Gezéra Chava

effects of an analysis with Lacan

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore the effects of a Freudian slip committed by the analyst Jacques Lacan in the course of an analysis section. The man analyzed – later to become an analyst himself – tells the story through a very sensitive account of his own analysis. At the time of the fact, already infused with the desire to become an analysit, he is about to finish Med School and suffering from an obssessive neurosis very detrimental to his professional relationships (he used to be a successful agronomist) and especially to his family relationships. A Tunisian Jew, he had renounced Religion in his teens due to the conflicts with his father. However, in the course of the analysis, he reconciles himself with Religion and even comes to be a student of the Torah, from which he retrieves a great contribution to the interpretation theory of Psychoanalysis.