{"id":6683,"date":"2023-06-28T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/06\/28\/un-amour-de-pere-alexandre-gouthiere\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:36:19","slug":"a-fathers-love-alexandre-gouthiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/06\/28\/a-fathers-love-alexandre-gouthiere\/","title":{"rendered":"A father\u2019s love \u2013 Alexandre Gouthi\u00e8re<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his introductory text of the section \u201cThe Maladies of the father\u201d, Fabian Fajnwaks lists some examples of a father\u2019s modes of existence at play in these maladies[1]<\/a>. Let us add to this series another example from the psychanalytical literature, no less symptomatic in its impact. This example is Minna\u2019s father. It is a case that our colleague Araceli Fuentes presented in the collection entitled Rapid therapeutic effects in psychoanalysis <\/em>(Effets th\u00e9rapeutiques rapides en psychanalyse<\/em>)[2]<\/a>. Let\u2019s recall the main points.<\/p>\n

Minna is a Romanian woman who comes from a poor and very catholic family. Clinically, she presents a traumatic neurosis after finding herself in the middle of the bombings at Madrid\u2019s Atocha train station, in 2004. Referring to the recurring nightmares that she has been having ever since, the patient tells her analyst that she feels guilty for having fled when it happened and for not having helped the injured. She suffers from not living up to the ideal that her very pious father had transmitted to her. He had raised her in a world that was governed by the law of love. \u201cFaced with the real of the trauma, the appeal to a father who is nothing but love, receives no response, Araceli Fuentes tells us. Minna\u2019s anxiety persists; her attempt of supplementing with religious meaning fails\u201d[3]<\/a>. In the discussion, Jacques-Alain Miller gives us a key to understanding the case: the law in accordance to which Minna had been raised by her father was contradicted by the facts. Faced with what the terror attack had revealed of human savagery, faced with the emergence of the real without law, Minna has no weapons to confront the situation, her \u201cworld therefore becomes illegible to her\u201d[4]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, what does the analyst do? She receives Minna without alleviating her guilt and the latter rapidly turns into hatred towards the other: Moroccans, terrorists. The analyst deduces from it the logic of her position: \u201cthe contrary of an idealising position\u201d[5]<\/a>, she says, from a position similar to that of the father. She does it \u201cin a way that the meaning does not obstruct the production, neither on the side of religion, nor on the side of racism\u201d[6]<\/a>.What follows is a treatment, where the opening of the unconscious is punctuated by dreams that have a determining place. The patient thus manages to denounce the crushing weight of her love of the father and testifies her desire to untie herself from the religious stranglehold of her family tradition. At the end of the treatment, her anxiety disappeared. Minna takes up \u201cthe thread of life\u201d[7]<\/a> and decides to focus on a serious medical problem that she had been neglecting for several months although it could have killed her.<\/p>\n

To return here to this fascinating case is in many regards of great interest today. The effects that we observe in this cure consist in fact in a de-idealisation of the father figure, thereby debunking accusations against psychoanalysis for contributing to the maintenance of the patriarchal order. In the case of Minna\u2019s father, the dimension of all<\/em> \u2013\u00a0in his relation to love\u00a0\u2013 is the symptom of his own way of incarnating \u201cthe function model\u201d[8]<\/a>. The all-love is his surplus<\/em>–jouissance<\/em>. This is his p\u00e8re-version,<\/em> his own way, as proposes \u00c9ric Laurent, \u201cof helping his family members to say no to jouissance\u201d[9]<\/a>, by wowing them (the function of \u00e9-pater)<\/em>, primarily his daughter. It is therefore at the level of her trauma that we can \u201cmeasure the real of [his] function\u201d[10]<\/a> for her: covering up a horrible truth that was revealed during the terror attack. Minna\u2019s father version is thus at the source of her neurosis and its consequences: anxiety, culpability, but also negligence regarding her own health. This effect does not make him a more pathogenic father than any other. He is indeed, like all fathers, just in his own way.<\/p>\n

References from the author:
\n[1]<\/a> Fajnwaks F., \u00abThe way of surplus jouissance\u00bb, Nobodaddy<\/em>, Blog Pipol\u00a011, 26\u00a0f\u00e9vrier\u00a02023.
\n[2]<\/a> Fuentes A., \u00abMinna\u00bb, in<\/em> Miller J.-A. (s\/dir), Effets th\u00e9rapeutiques rapides en psychanalyse. <\/em>La conversation de Barcelone<\/em>, Paris, Navarin, 2005, p.\u00a013-40.
\n[3]<\/a> Ibid.<\/em>, p.\u00a016.
\n[4]<\/a> Ibid.<\/em>, p.\u00a037.
\n[5]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a016.<\/em>
\n[6]<\/a> Ibid.<\/em>, p.\u00a030.<\/em>
\n[7]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p.\u00a019.<\/em>
\n[8]<\/a> Laurent \u00c9., \u00abParentalit\u00e9s apr\u00e8s le patriarcat\u00bb, Quarto<\/em>, n\u00b0133, mars\u00a02023, p.\u00a064, Our translation.
\n[9]<\/a> Ibid<\/em>., p. 66, Our translation.
\n[10]<\/a> Fajnwaks F., op. cit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Translation: Eva-Sophie Reinhofer
\nProofreading: Polina Agapaki<\/p>\n

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