The ethical problem at the beginning of Jacques-Alain Miller's thought: from philosophy to clinical practice (1966-1983)

Abstract

The following work intends to reconstruct the ethical problem in the work of Jacques-Alain Miller from its beginnings in 1960, until the turn adopted at the beginning of the 80's from the phrase other Lacan. This new punctuation, of political and epistemic origins, is defined in the course of 1983 From the symptom to the fantasy from the emphasis on the real that Lacan makes in the ethics seminar and that Miller takes up for his new theoretical-clinical formulations. As an interpretive framework for said reconstruction, his passage from philosophy to psychoanalysis will be thematized, taking into account not only the academic origins of the author, but also the eminently philosophical character of ethics as a reflection oriented towards practical problems. As such, the dialectic between psychoanalysis and philosophy proves to sustain a critical tension that prevents the reduction of the problem to models of complementarity or the definition of psychoanalysis as a simple anti-philosophy.