「存在しない女」の審級 : エウリピデスの『メデア』に寄せて

Abstract

The end of analysis is one of the questions that have been discussed since the beginning of psychoanalysis. Freud took a negative position, saying that there is a rock of castration beyond which analysis would go no further. Contrary to Freud, late Lacan takes a radical step with the concept of "Identification with symptom". At first, Lacan accented the Symbolic and defined the traversing fantasy as issues of analysis. Later, as the Real takes on importance in his theory, the identification with symptom is repeatedly emphasized. This theoretical turn results from his original reflections on femininity. The concepts of femininity and enjoyment around his famous thesis "Woman does not exist" are articulated by examining two acts : Medea's murder of her own children and Gide's wife's burning of his letters. These two acts are homologous in terms of the woman who does not exist, or the true woman. Another possibility of cure emerges in the identification with symptom.