[…] How should we understand this word “experience”? In French there is the experiment done in the lab, and the experience you have in life – it is not the same. But there is something common to everything called an “experience”. We speak of experience when it cannot be imagined in advance, when you can’t imagine in advance what will happen. An experience is the presentiment of a “happening”. We use the English word to designate the unexpectedness of the event. There is of course the Latin expression “experimentum mentis”, “thought experiment” which refers to the effort to imagine in advance. But what goes against the “experimentum mentis” is the “happening”. We will have an example of this this afternoon with the presentation by Natalia Gomoyunova, who explains how she had thought of planning her analysis, and as she writes: “Nothing is happening as I imagined it.” That’s the experience! It’s when it doesn’t happen the way you imagined it would. That’s why we say: “You have to experience it.” So, when we use the word “experience”, we always point to a hole in knowledge. […] An experience always refers to a lack of knowledge, especially the experience of an analysis. […]
Πηγή: Απόσπασμα από την ομιλία του Jacques Allen Miller στις 30/09/2010 στο πρώτο 'Εργαστήριο Λακάν' στην Ρωσία
Εικόνα: DESIGNECOLOGIST
The experience of an analysis
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