The Symbolic Order in the XXIst Century

It’s not what it used to be. What consequences for the treatment? Buenos Aires. 2012

The symbolic order is not what it used to be. Lacan predicted the fall of the father and the rise to the zenith of the object a. What are the consequences? Can we still speak about an “order” in the age of the internet? Is it not rather the reign of cacophony or polyphony? What are the consequences for democracy? For speech itself? For interpretation and the act of the analyst?

8th WAP Congress. Buenos Aire. April 23-27, 2012. Direction: Flory Kruger.