Keynes / 'jouissance'

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Peter:
>On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote:
>> "The ethical limits of psychoanalysis coincide with the
>> limits of its practice." - Lacan, Seminar VII
>>
>> Analysis is a praxis of jouissance, and jouissance is
>> anything but practical.  It ignores the needs of capital,
>> health insurance companies, socialized health care, public
>> order, and mature relations.  While therapists in our
>> society are expected to interact with their patients in
>> ways that are considered by dominant contemporary social,
>> political, and psychological discourses to be for their own
>> good, analyts act instead so as to further their
>> analysands' Eros.  That aim is constitutive of the praxis
>> that is psychoanalysis.
>
>Just a quick question of clarification:
>
>Is this 'jouissance' is in a way akin to the thing that Marx meant when he
>replied, in response to a question about 'what is human nature':
>'struggle'?  Like 'desire'?

I'd say 'jouissance' is akin to Keynes' comment on the game of professional
investment: the point is to 'ape unreason proleptically' (qtd. in Henwood,
_Wall Street_, p. 206).

retrofitting continues,

Yoshie