Abstract

FERREIRA, Patrícia do Prado. The psychoanalytic cartel and the limits of its logical scale. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp. 23-33. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v18i1.6528.

The purpose of this paper is to address the logical scale limit of the cartel. This transmission device proposed by Jacques Lacan and called the "basic organ" of the functioning of his School can be understood as a collective form that emerges from a number of attempts - including failures - of the constitution that structures itself beyond the group effects described by Freud in Mass Psychology and Self-Analysis. Therefore, it is intended that the cartel escape from traditional hierarchical and vertical structures, as well as try to empty the sense of identifications between peers and the "One ideal". To do so, the proposal is a logical arrangement limited to 4 + 1, in which the cartel members gather around a theme (which would act as a link between the small group), presenting a working argument that simultaneously makes the group - since the members are articulated by a production of knowledge, a task - and particularizes the question. Thinking on the theory of speeches (using maths to demonstrate the engendering of social ties) proposed by Lacan in 1969-70, the structure of a cartel can be associated with an inscription in the analyst's speech. The other speech from the master, the university, and the hysteric-somehow map the apparatus of enjoyment indifferently to social scales. The "numerical" qualification of the cartel is little studied in psychoanalysis and, in our opinion, it says of an implicit commitment of the Lacanian theory with certain theses of the political philosophy and the sociology with respect to the origin of the mass phenomena. Starting from these ideas, we ask ourselves what would be a "tie by analytic discourse" that does not corroborate this restrictive corollary, which, unlike the other speeches, focuses on the scale of the social bond. We try to use psychoanalysis - especially the Lacanian proposal of the cartel - to think of the group structure as also potentially emancipatory. We believe that this is on the foundation of the 'basal organ' of the School, by suggesting thinking beyond group alienation.

Keywords : mass; group; cartel; speeches.

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