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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.623
In Memory of Ernest Jones: On His Theory of Symbolism > On an Ex Post Facto Syllabary
Theoretical move: Lacan uses Jones's critique of Silberer and Jung to vindicate his own tripartite distinction of the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real as the methodological foundation of psychoanalysis, arguing that the "true symbol" is not a figure of the concrete but a signifier marking the place of a constitutive lack, and that confusing the symbolic with the imaginary is the error that opens the door to both "hermeneuticization" and "psychologization" of psychoanalysis.
Jones no doubt triumphs. We will excuse him for failing to ward off the danger that will arise shy of it: precisely from the psychologization with which psychoanalytic practice will ever more weigh itself down in opposition to Freud's discovery.