Cultural Ahistoricism
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.352
The Freudian Thing > or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis
Theoretical move: Lacan frames his "return to Freud" as a corrective response to the systematic betrayal of Freudian doctrine by the post-war psychoanalytic movement—particularly its American wing—which subordinated the discipline's historical and theoretical core to the demands of social adaptation and ego-mastery, inverting Freud's revolutionary insight into a reactionary "manager of souls" function; textual commentary on Freud's written corpus is proposed as the methodological instrument of restoration.
it is where history is denied with a categorical will that gives enterprises their style, that of a cultural ahistoricism characteristic of the United States of North America