An Unforeseen Event
The Fall activities began with great impetus when Mauricio Tarrab’s gave his Pass Testimony in New York and later on in Miami this past week. A guest of the Members of the WAP in US, Mauricio Tarrab’s Pass testimony was a first time event in our community.
An analysis he said, is finding the “footprints that have marked us, and along this path we hope to reduce the weight of the pathos that affects our body and mind, this pathos being what we call our symptoms”.
He demonstrated how a signifier “soplo” which in English can be translated as murmur (as in heart murmur), blow or breath occupied a fundamental part in his analysis and in his life, being first the signifier of the maternal desire, S1, to be replaced by the paternal metaphor, and becoming an object a: “a breath on the side of the symptom, the other breath on the side of the fantasy.
During his pass testimony, Mauricio Tarrab discussed what he called an unforeseen event; the Pass and he qualified his presentation in New York also as an unforeseen event in his life in the sense that nothing will have prepared him for something like this.
The decision of presenting oneself for the Pass is like a math test he said, where “one has to use knowledge, a knowledge that gives no effect of sense but which gives a result”.
Mauricio Tarrab’s presentation was elegant and transparent, unveiling significant parts of his history, of his analysis, his symptoms and of the interpretation of the analyst.
About thirty people attended the testimony and they were all captivated by the presentation. We had the luxury of having almost an hour of exchange with questions and comments from the audience.
A member of the audience was surprised hearing the testimony, asking why would somebody discuss his own analysis in public instead of presenting a clinical case.
Somebody wanted to know how could somebody remember all the significant parts of an analysis. Another how can one be sure this is the end of analysis. Another compared it to Lacan’s example of the prisoners in the logical time, when discussing how to find the hole to go out. Somebody else wanted more precisions about the sinthome at the end of analysis.
It was an unforeseen event, a unique learning experience, and a very rich moment.
We are most grateful to Mauricio Tarrab’s for his generosity and willingness to work with us and to share his Pass experience.
New York, September 10, 2007
Maria Cristina Aguirre
Buenos Aires, 22 September 2007
ResponderExcluirMi querida amiga Maria Cristina,
Felicitaciones al grupo de New York (NLS) y a ti por invitar a Mauricio Tarrab, un querido amigo y colega de la EOL, a dar su testimonio de su Pase, un evento inesperado para el y para el grupo. Haciendome eco de tus palabras indudablememte debe haber sido "una experiencia unica de aprendizaje y un momento muy fecundo". Que mas se puede agregar?
Creo que si. Personalmmente, he tenido el privilegio de concurrir a todas sus intervenciones de su Pase en la EOL y te puedo asegurar que cada vez ha resultado una experiencia cautivante, como tu dices.
Tanbien quisiera una experiencia personal que atesoro en mi memoria. Pude conversar con Mauricio en Barcelona en 1998, despues de haber presentado un paperen ingles sobre drogadiccion en las Jornadas del Campo Freudiano cuando estaba viviendo en Australia.
Mauricio estaba en la audiencia porque le habian comentado que sus textos (et al) figuraban en mi bibliografia.
Y como no iba a figurar si Mauricio Tarrab era uno de los generadores de la Red de Toxicomania y Alcoholismo del Campo Freudiano y uno de los autores de los esclarecedores trabajos de sus publicaciones, que son muchas y muy ricas las cuales adquiria en la EOL en mis visitas anuales a Buenos Aires. Esos preciados textos me inspiraron, no solamente para escribir el trabajo sino tambien para mis seminarios en el Lacan Circle of Melbourne (NLS).
Espero reencontrarnos en Buenos Aires para el Congreso y para continuar con nuestros dialogos.
Y gracias por la oportunidad que nos brinda internet para ver las fotos de ambos y el grupo en pleno trabajo.
Love,
Susana
Y ahora en ingles
My dear friend Maria Cristina,
Congratulations to the New York Group and especially to you for inviting Mauricio Tarrab, a dear friend and colleague from EOL, to give his Pass Testimony, an unforseen event for him and for the group as a "unique learning experience, and a very rich moment".
What more can I add to this?
Yes, personally I have had the priviledge to attend his continuous work in progress on the Pass. I can assure you that each time, agreeing with you, it has been a rich and captivaing experience of learning.
I met Mauricio in Barcelona. I was surprised to see him in the audience together with the English-speaking members and attendants while I was presenting my paper on drug-addiction in English at the Seminar on the Freudian Field. Through him, then I learnt that he was there because he was surprised when he was told that his works were mentioned in my bibliography.
Mauricio was one of the auhors of a large number of publications on the field. He was part of La Red de Toxicomania y Alcoholismo del Campo Freudiano. I have most of their publications with me, which helped me not only in writing the paper on that ocassion but in preparing my seminars for the Lacan Circle of Melbourne (NLS) as well.
I also have to say that I loved to see the photographs of both of you working with the group.
Love,
Susana
I expect to see you in Buenos Aires 2008.
Susana Tillet
Member EOL and NLS
susanatillet@fibertel.com.ar
I also have to say that I loved to see the photographs of both of you working with the group.
Love,
Susana
I expect to see you in Buenos Aires 2008.
Susana Tillet
Member EOL and NLS
susanatillet@fibertel.com.ar