{"id":4627,"date":"2023-03-16T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/03\/16\/linquietant-notre-pere-pierre-marie-pochou\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:24:14","slug":"the-disturbing-our-father-pierre-marie-pochou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/03\/16\/the-disturbing-our-father-pierre-marie-pochou\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disturbing Our Father \u2013 Pierre-Marie Pochou<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our Greco-Judeo-Christian society, few texts have been read, recited, prayed, and commented on as much as the Our Father<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Coming from a patriarchal society, it could not but transpose an imaginary that feeds fantasies, especially under the vigilant eye of clerics preserving their patriarchal dignity for centuries.<\/p>\n

The paternal figure of the God invoked has thus nourished in many believers the image of a being, albeit transcendent \u2013\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Our Father who art in heaven\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u2013 with an arbitrary will, an image to which they have submitted and submit in many ways.<\/p>\n

European churches are emptying. Shouldn\u2019t they reassure the \u00ab\u00a0faithful\u00a0\u00bb by presenting them with a benevolent God\u00a0? Is this why, in 2013, the Catholic bishops of French-speaking countries established a new liturgical translation of Our Father\u00a0<\/em>? The French text has not changed much, except for the demand \u00ab\u00a0and lead us not into temptation\u00a0\u00bb which has become \u00ab\u00a0and do not let us go into temptation\u00a0\u00bb[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Presumably, the envisaged peaceful relationship with the Father was troubled and disturbing by his tempting trait. What was needed was a reassuring image of a Father, free from any peril he might have fomented and advocated. But is the new image so reassuring\u00a0? If the promoters of the textual modification wanted the God invoked to be no longer suspected of being a Father who would abuse the good faith of his children or play with their lives, they have only reinforced this image. Indeed, the signifier \u00ab\u00a0do not let us\u00a0\u00bb[2]<\/a> supports a truth in its other side\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0you leave us\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0you can leave us\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

The new translation has not solved anything. It has erased the figure of a crushing, enslaving Father who can put his children under a mortifying yoke, and introduced that of a guardian of order who, according to his mood, guides in one direction or another. In short, an abusive father who has gone from being an enjoying, sadistic father to a father with arbitrary regulations.<\/p>\n

Both versions can only entail an infantilisation of believers turned towards a master-signifier, the heavenly Father, a version of an \u00ab\u00a0eternal God taken to the letter, not of his jouissance that is always veiled and unfathomable, but of his desire as involved in the larger scheme of things \u2013\u00a0this is the core where, petrifying his anxiety, the pervert instates himself as such.\u00a0\u00bb[3]<\/a> Lacan also speaks of \u00ab\u00a0a flight from the father\u2019s desire, for which the subject substitutes the father\u2019s demand\u00a0\u00bb[4]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is not easy for a son or a daughter to know how to deal with the \u00ab\u00a0father\u00a0\u00bb in his challenging, humanising function. The Church has come to sugar-coat this questioning \u2013\u00a0a very patriarchal practice\u00a0\u2013 which freezes and worsens the images that the \u00ab\u00a0faithful\u00a0\u00bb make of their God. \u00ab\u00a0If God made us in his image, we have returned him the favour.\u00a0\u00bb[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Cf. Bailly A., Dictionnaire grec-fran\u00e7ais<\/em>, Paris, Hachette, 1980. The Greek signifier translated by \u00ab\u00a0temptation\u00a0\u00bb was referred to an attraction towards evil whereas it could be translated by \u00ab\u00a0test\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0experience\u00a0\u00bb. The translator has therefore inflected the existential perspective in a moral sense. On the other hand, the Greek signifier translated by \u00ab\u00a0to submit\u00a0\u00bb could be translated as \u00ab\u00a0to bring\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0to introduce\u00a0\u00bb. Whatever its translation, this signifier refers to a tyrannical master.
\n[2]<\/a> The French \u00ab\u00a0ne nous laisse\u00a0<\/em>\u00bb can be rendered as \u00ab\u00a0do not let us\u00a0\u00bb and also \u00ab\u00a0do not leave us\u00a0\u00bb. [TN]
\n[3]<\/a> Lacan J., On the Names-of-the-Father<\/em>, Transl., B. Fink, Polity, 2013, p.\u00a077.
\n[4]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a078.
\n[5]<\/a> Voltaire, Notebooks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Translation\u00a0: Florencia F.C. Shanahan
\nProofreading\u00a0: Ana-Marija Kroker<\/p>\n

Picture\u00a0: \u00a9Elena Madera<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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