TY - JOUR
T1 - Envisioning the Time of Testimony: The Analyst as the Other Witness
AU - Torlasco, Domietta
PY - 2005/8
Y1 - 2005/8
N2 - This essay interrogates the relation between psychoanalysis, detection and testimony, arguing that psychoanalysis can help us envision the time of testimony as the time of creative repetition – what will be called, following Jacques Lacan, remembrance in the future anterior – only after it critically engages its own relationship to the trial and the model of juridical witnessing to which all witnessing is often assimilated. The essay also shows that such a possibility for memory exceeds the private sphere of psychoanalysis and can fully inhabit the social and aesthetic domain of film.
AB - This essay interrogates the relation between psychoanalysis, detection and testimony, arguing that psychoanalysis can help us envision the time of testimony as the time of creative repetition – what will be called, following Jacques Lacan, remembrance in the future anterior – only after it critically engages its own relationship to the trial and the model of juridical witnessing to which all witnessing is often assimilated. The essay also shows that such a possibility for memory exceeds the private sphere of psychoanalysis and can fully inhabit the social and aesthetic domain of film.
U2 - 10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100033
DO - 10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100033
M3 - Article
VL - 10
SP - 138
EP - 150
JO - Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
JF - Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
ER -