Sobre um suplemento de significante

Abstract

The Lacanian proposition, found in The knowledge of the Psychoanalyst, according to which the definition of interpretation would be: the intervention of an analyst in the discourse of a subject, looking out there for a supplement of significant, has served of inspiration for this text. Here, Lacan has warned us that the analyst would not be, in any way, a nominalist. One analyst, in his/her practice, would not seek the representations of the subject. Something from this position, ethics, we can find, since the beginning of Lacan’s teaching. Some of his comments are to follow, in accordance with a certain chronology, until this notion of supplement is reached, what it points to us a “femininizing’ orientation to an analysis. That at a possible end of analysis there can be no equivalence there can be no equivalence between a man and woman, this points to a supplementary jouissance compared to the phallic jouissance.