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The question of the hand: as the so-called detainer of the Freudian message. Bonaparte
was destined for assault. Insistently, repetitively, automatically. The footnote
attacking the cook, which confined itself to a discreet disdain for cooking, was
added to the Ecrits
almost ten years after the first publication of the Seminar in La Psychanalyse
. But actually from the time of Rome, in the discourse of the same name, five years
before, the major accusation against Bonaparte already had been launched: secondhand!
Her texts do not at first hand hold the letter of Freud. A given author is "hardly
aware" of Freudian theory, "since he tackles the theory through the work of Marie Bonaparte,
which he repeatedly cites as an equivalent of the text of Freud--without the reader
being in any way advised of the fact--relying no doubt on the good taste of the reader, not without reason, not to confuse the two, but proving no less that he has not
the remotest understanding of the true level of the secondary text (seconde main
)" Ecrits
(E), p. 39. And since one must simultaneously keep the first hand for oneself and
not generalize too much about the second, there are therefore two "levels," a good
and a bad second hand. The "good" one, as we will see, takes the letter of the Freudian
text as a "text which is the vehicle of speech, in that it constitutes a new emergence
of the truth," knows how "to treat it as a true speech," "to experience it in its
authenticity" as "full speech," Ecrits
(F), p. 381; it is a question of Freud's text. And the zealous setting aside of Bonaparte's
"second hand" can be read several lines before the chapter to the glory of "full
speech."
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