November 2025 - The-lacanalyst

A theoretical an practical questioning
by jacsib＠lutecium.org 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Dear friends and colleagues I had a very interesting discussion with Aviva, which pinpointed the major differences between psychoanalysis in France and the USA. I wish to have you opinion on this. Let's put it this way, you are licensed by the state as psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker etc. You spend the evening with a very good friend of yours and he says he cannot carry on and he is going to kill himself. You do your best to help him change his mind and you go to sleep without telling anyone. The next morning you hear he is dead, unfortunately. My first question is can you be sued? due to the fact you, when you are in your office, try to cure people and have got a license to do so. I imagine (and hope) that you can argue that what happened that evening was totally PRIVATE and was independent of your profession. In France situation of psychoanalysis is close to this one, it is a PRIVATE relationship between two humans. I mean, not only in the evening but in your office as well. No one has the right to intermix with it. There is an analyst and an analysand who agree to use a certain apparatus aimed to facilitate a work of speech (Freudian talking cure). The fact that you might be a licensed psychologist or psychotherapist of psychiatrist does not make a difference as long as the process with your analysand is analytic and not therapeutic. We know some people did kill themselves when in analysis with Lacan or other analysts but of course they were not sued. When we talk about lacanalysis we mean this. Because Aviva says that even in the case of a private practice with a patient she can be sued. Of course in the regard of psychoanalysis it is a nonsense. I'd love to have your vision of this scheme as it seems to be a thorn in the side of psychoanalysis in your country. All the very best Jacques PS can you meet on Friday 5 at 1400 UTC?

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Wrong again!
by jacsib01＠gmail.com 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

The date of our next meeting actually does not fit. I am not free at this day and time. Either we postpone or I pass the credentials to Quinn and run the zoom meeting without me. It is pretty hard to find a date when we are all available. This is even emphasized by the fact there are 9 time zones between us! Jacques

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Meeting
by quinnfoerch＠gmail.com 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

Hi all, Hoping you are well. Do we have time to meet next week? I am free Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thank you! Best, Quinn quinnfoerch.com

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Zoom misinterpretation!
by jacsib＠lutecium.org 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Dear friends John has just tried to join a Zoom meeting, I'm sorry I have not noted the fact we had scheduled a meeting today! When can we decide of the next one? Jacques

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Fwd: Response to the Meeting on the title of the Analyst (11.5.25)
by jacsib＠lutecium.org 06 Nov '25

06 Nov '25

Hi Robert (BTW how do you want to be called Robert? Scully? Tate?) Thanks for the link to your paper, here are fast comments. There is actually a major difference between France (and some other latin countries) and the USA (and the UK). France's law is inspired by the Roman law and the Code Napol?on; US' law is inspired by the Common Law. The consequences are that US is using an accusation model and France an inquisition model. In the US I can accuse you of a fraud and go to trial (that's why PIs are so common in the US); in France I cannot accuse you of a fraud, I believe I have suffered of a fraud by you and therefore I transmit this belief as a complaint to the equivalent of your DA "le procureur de la R?publique", then he is the one who will ask the police department to conduct an inquiry (Officier de police judiciaire). Then he will decide, looking at the conclusions of the police what to do with the complaint. Now how does this impact the praxis of psychoanalysis in these two countries? In the US it is pretty easy to accuse you of a misconduct as long as I have the money to hire the services of a PI. In France the procureur will first evaluate if the complaint is private or public. If I am the client of a psychologist the procureur will check if my psychologist has the legal right to practice his psychotherapy (diploma and so on). If I am the analysand of a psychoanalyst the procureur will automatically decide that this is a PRIVATE matter and that he has no right to intervene. Suppose I submit the following complaint; my wife dumped a piece of furniture I loved without asking this first, If I submit this complaint to the procureur he will dump the complaint! This is the same for psychoanalysis. I heard a judge explaining that in the course of a divorce the couple wanted the judge to decide of the rhythm of lodging for the dog! A dog is part of the furniture it's private. To conclude when we put forward the concept and signifier of lacanalysis we expect to be as close as possible as this official practice of psychoanalysis in France. Some kind of private practice. Le psychanalyste ne s'autorise que de lui-m?me et de quelques autres. Psychoanalyst receives authorization from himself and from a few others (his analysands) To the best Jacques -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Response to the Meeting on the title of the Analyst (11.5.25) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 20:46:14 -0800 From: Tate <tate at netwood.net> To: Jacques B. Siboni <jacsib at lutecium.org> Dear Folks, Being inspired by the brief discussion this early morning, I reopened a few parentheses on the /Freudian Thing /in the U.S. and France that I had been writing on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNeYzuHTk-TaBiy3W-MbWX7vjy6Vgb17XcKNAu6… Anyone who cares to view or comment, the doc is open. Truly ScullyR.G.

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by jacsib＠lutecium.org 05 Nov '25

05 Nov '25

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by quinnfoerch＠gmail.com 05 Nov '25

05 Nov '25

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