What Lacan Said About “Sheep a Sheep” | Beginning from the Footsteps, the First Series of Walking Knowledge Series Published – Clinical Lacan

Original source: Little Reading Random (Guangxi Normal University Press)
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Recently, a elimination game called “A Sheep” has invaded people’s lives. This little game, which is known as “the clearance rate is less than 0.1%”, allows players to roast and challenge repeatedly driven by the complex psychology of “pain and play”. Survey data shows that within a few days, hundreds of millions of people have been unable to stop their desires and have forgotten to eat and sleep, and some have even browsed 5136 times within two days.

So, why can “sheep like a sheep” make people so addicted and become a hot topic in society? Psychological experts point out that anything with addictive properties must have an internal sense of satisfaction. Without an internal sense of satisfaction, there will be no need. From the theoretical perspective of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the popularity of “sheep like sheep” is in line with his theory of “desire”: a pleasure brought about by pain or fear. Even though the players are aware of the randomness of the game, they still enjoy roast at the same time. What they want is just a little enjoyment of “becoming 0.1%”.In the field of psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan created a new academic school with his legendary academic career: the Lacan school, which became another recognized peak in academia after Freud. Lacan’s theory is obscure and difficult to understand, and his thoughts are profound and complex. To open the door to Lacan psychoanalysis in Lacan’s complex theory and obscure terminology, it is necessary to understand what Lacan psychoanalysts have actually done in clinical practice.

The famous French psychoanalyst Jo ë l Dor’s “Clinical Lacan” is a work about Jacques Lacan’s clinical ideas and practical applications. This book consists of a series of lectures given by Joel Doll to psychoanalysts at the training center, with a focus on the diagnosis of mental structures, allowing readers to directly touch the landmarks guiding Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. In recent years, works and research on Lacan have been introduced and published one after another, playing a significant role in promoting research in the field of psychology, especially psychoanalysis, in China. The characteristic of “Clinical Lacan” lies in its emphasis on discussing the application and experience introduction of Lacan in clinical practice, and its profound definition of the human subject’s spiritual structure and discussion of diagnosis. In this book, the author uses fascinating clinical examples to elaborate on three mental structures – compulsion, inversion, and hysteria, as well as their diagnosis and differentiation issues, which are of great value for theoretical research and clinical guidance.
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This book is based on the diagnosis and mental structure of Lacanian psychoanalysis, elaborating on the characteristics, theoretical points, and clinical key points of inversion, hysteria, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, aiming to present Lacanian clinical practice more systematically. In addition to sorting out the clinical theories related to Lacan, Joel Doll also talked about Freud’s thoughts on these clinical aspects, which can help us better compare, connect, and understand the theoretical viewpoints of the two. There have never been many books on Lacan clinical practice, and this book fills this gap very well—— Tan YuchenMember of the psychoanalytic behaviorist school

Master’s degree in psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary research at the Seventh University of Paris

Master’s degree in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from Sichuan University

It is worth mentioning that “Clinical Lacan” is not a book specifically written for clinical workers. It is not only popular and intuitive among industry readings, but also an introductory reading material for Lacan psychoanalysis. It can be said that anyone interested in psychoanalysis can discover many thought-provoking things in the reading of this book. In the preface to “Clinical Lacan,” Dr. Judith Fel Gulwicz wrote, “Doll clearly points out that pathology and subjectivity are closely intertwined, so when readers want to know what kind of mental structure they are, they may feel that they are also involved in the text. As Doll said, each of us is in our own intersubjective world, and we desire and want to be desires in a specific way.”
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It is difficult for those interested in the practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis not to be drawn to the topic of Clinical Lacania. As the founder, Freud’s clinical theories were sometimes too concise, leading to the formation of critical views such as self psychology and object relationship theory, which Lacan criticized under the banner of “returning to Freud”; Lacan’s style full of “impossible” forces psychoanalysts to constantly “return to Lacan.”. Therefore, “Clinical Lacan” is ultimately a work that leans towards theory. But upon closer inspection, it is not difficult to see that Joel Doll has done his best to find a middle ground between Freud and Lacan, theory and clinical practice.

——He Yifei

Psychoanalytic practitioner

Member of the psychoanalytic behaviorist school

Master’s degree in psychoanalysis from the Eighth University of Paris

Master’s degree in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from Sichuan University

Not all works about Lacan can be both professional and profound, as well as popular and intuitive. The author and translator of “Clinical Lacan” are both important researchers in the field of Lacan and have rich practical experience in psychoanalysis. The book is written with meticulous thinking, clear logic, and high readability.
Author: Jo ë l Dor

Professor of psychoanalysis at the Seventh University of Paris in France, renowned French psychoanalyst, and an important researcher in the field of Lacan. He is one of the key figures in the Lacanian psychoanalytic movement, and in fact, he embodies a certain transformation in Lacanian thought that was reflected by a group of analysts in the 1980s. At that time, some works had already partially introduced Lacan’s teaching, but Joel Doll was undoubtedly the first person to introduce Lacan on such a large scale, making Lacan’s ideas “easy” to understand and “clear”.
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Doll is a very important Lacanian analyst. As a second-generation Lacanian analyst and professor at the University of Paris VII, he has written many important books introducing Lacanian theory and clinical practice. This book elaborates on Lacan’s theory of subject structure, as well as the mechanism, significance, and clinical relationship of Lacan style structural diagnosis with listening. On this basis, the author presents Lacanian perspectives on different types of neurosis, inversion, homosexuality, etc., and links them to Freud’s clinical practice through very specific clinical phenomena. This is a precious clinical practice book of the Lacanian school—— Zhang TaoMember of the psychoanalytic behaviorist school

PhD in psychoanalysis from the Eighth University of Paris

Translator: Wu Zhangzhang
Member of the School of Psychoanalytic Practice, Master of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from Sichuan University, Master of Psychoanalysis from Paris Eighth University, Member of the Psychoanalysis Committee of the Sichuan Psychological Society, and Personal Practicing Psychoanalyst.
Psychoanalytic behaviorism
Established in Guangzhou on October 24, 2019, with strong support from Guangzhou Medical University Affiliated Brain Hospital, Paris Saint Anna Hospital in France, Guangzhou Psychological Health Association, and EPFCL Psychoanalytic Association in France. The French name of the school is É cole Psycholytique du Savoir y fair. Why is it the Savoir y Faire school? It is to emphasize that after undergoing psychoanalytic training, one knows how to apply unique analytical experiences to conduct psychoanalysis.