Post Lacan: The Continuing Problematic
The question of the status of foreclosure continued to plague Lacan's successors in the decades after his death, as 'a mood of dissidence... witness to the transformation linked to the end of the Lacanian saga' and 'more than twenty associations emerged from the 1980 dissolution of the École Freudienne de Paris. With a general obligation to uphold both fidelity to Lacan, and Lacan's fidelity to Freud, they struggled with the fact that 'whatever the (considerable) value of "foreclosure" as clinical and epistomological concept...the term, before being a translation of Freud's German, was a borrowing from Pinchon's French'.
'At best the commentators perceive that foreclosure does not exist as a concept in Freud's work...sometimes they make no mention of the borrowing from Pinchon and...at worst, the commentators "hallucinate" the presence of a concept of foreclosure in Freud', driven by the need to preserve Lacan as Freud's true successor.
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