Um acontecimento amoroso: o (não) saber da transferência e o motor de um pensamento

A love event: the (non-)knowing of transference and the driving force of thought

Abstract

Abstract: This paper discusses the scope of the historical advent of Lacanian psychoanalysis, approached through the reordering of networks of knowledge resulting from the conceptualization of the unconscious and of transference. This point of inflection makes it possible to situate psychoanalysis both as an intervention within the field of science and as a discursive subversion within the field of love. To this end, we draw on the contributions of Alain Badiou, who recognizes the Lacanian event as decisive within the philosophical horizon, materially sustained by the establishment of a new truth procedure concerning love. While, at first, the Freudian formulation of transference made possible the constitution of a conceptual framework devoted to the affective relations between physician and patient—a framework that nevertheless quickly exceeded
its original context by offering a grammar capable of thinking the determinants of love in other relationships—the Lacanian advances, grounded in the critique of the notion of intersubjectivity, in the role of identification, and in the interposition of language in the constitution of the subject, establish the conditions for a critique of the fusional conception of love: love must be thought from the perspective of the Two, no longer of the One. In this way, the specific ordering of the transferential field provides the basis for the formalization of the analytic discourse, which is in turn characterized by a formal alignment with a
conception of science and, equally, as the reverse of the master’s discourse—and, consequently, also of philosophical discourse. Thus, Lacanian psychoanalysis can be defined as a double event in the history of thought: on the one hand, a love event; on the other, an archi-scientific event.

Keywords: Jacques Lacan; Alain Badiou; Transference; Love; Philosophy.