Lacan, el plagio y el hombre de los sesos frescos
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1137-4802
Year of publication: 2020
Issue Title: Del amor y la muerte
Issue: 49
Pages: 19-49
Type: Article
More publications in: Trama y fondo: revista de cultura
Abstract
This paper studies the insistent presence of Ernst Kris’s case known as the fresh ‘brains man’ in Jacques Lacan's speech. We identify direct allusions to it, we specify certain notable distortions and contradictions –never declared– that contains, as well as we review other forms of influence that not for being indirect are less relevant. This makes it possible to establish the profound shock that the knowledge of Kris's case and interpretation produced in the French psychoanalyst, all of which motivated by a shared family constellation and a very similar passion for plagiarism. This work is part of a textual analysis of Lacan's discourse that sheds a specifically psychoanalytic –and we could also say clinical– light on some of the most characteristic features of his rhetoric, on the way he led the institutions in which he participated, and on the peculiar nature of the way these institutions work.