By Julia Kristeva;Arthur Goldhammer
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The child must abandon its mother and be abandoned by her in order to be accepted by the father and begin talking. If it is true that language begins in mourning inherent in the evolution of subjectivity, the abandonment by the father-the symbolic "other"-trig gers a melancholy anguish that can grow to suicidal pro portions. " Beyond the torment of suicide there is joy, ineffable hap piness at finally rejoining the abandoned object. lvron or language of the cross, which some, according to Saint Paul, would call "foolishness" ( I Cor.
The analysand knows the un conscious, orders it, ca1culates with it, yet he also loses himself in it, plays with it, takes pleasure from it, Jives it. Psychoanalysis is both objectification and Immersion ; It is both knowing and, through language, unfolding. It is an ex traordinary effort to recast our whole inte11ectual tradition from its inception to its annihnation. On the one hand there is nothing {nifliD but the knowing subject; on the other hand I know that that subject derives from an aHen significance that transcends and overwhelms it, that emp ties it of meaning.
Last but not least, psychoanalysis is neither a manifesto for sexual liberation nor a method of enforcing some sort of "normal" sexuality. The psychoanalyst knows that human sexuality (as defined above) is by its very na ture diverse. It is a central part of the human being viewed as an open system, and when it goes wrong, suffering is the result, suffering to which psychoanalysis responds. In doing so psychoanalysis reveals the intrinsic perversity of human sexuality. "Perverse" is no doubt too pejorative a word to apply with a clear conscience to the commoner forms of human sexuality.