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We’ll proceed here as in other categories : slowly and carefully, in order to introduce the traveller to our own course.
We’ll proceed here as in other categories : slowly and carefully, in order to introduce the traveller to our own course.
In 1985, Julien Friedler published his second book, L’Ombre du Rabbin (Rabbi’s Shadow), a collection of short stories. On this occasion, the Belgian newspaper "Le Soir" published an enthusiastic review.
First, the journalist is amazed the book has been written in French rather than in English or Yiddish, comparing Friedler to Singer and raving about "the freedom of imagination", the humour, the "absolute trust in the language" Julien Friedler shows in these tales, impregnated with Jewish traditions. He promised then to the author a brilliant future.
Julien Friedler writes now :
Other articles would follow, raving for the most of them. However, the promise won’t be held.
For anecdotic reasons, first (a marriage, a child, the necessity to earn his daily bread) but also for deeper causes, due to our relation to litterature. The structure we were looking for, which could make the traditional novel (we already thought obsolete) explode, was escaping us. We were trying, in vain : our accounts were still running in a classic way, telling stories which were desperating us.
Weary, we changed our plans. A book would result, of another kind : Psychanalyse et neurosciences (Psychoanalysis and neurosciences) (Paris, PUF, 1995). The year before, we had founded "La Moire" (a research center on the psychic apparatus) in purpose of reworking the idea of a psychoanalytic institution. This without prejudging the essential, that is : the research of a modern spirituality, fitting our mutating societies
This article was published in Journal du médecin, 10 may 1996 :
"Founded in january 1994 by Julien Friedler, "La Moire", a research center on the psychic apparatus, is mostly a place of reflexion boasting more than 60 activities.
From the Greek "moira", meaning destiny, La Moire comes from Julien Friedler’s practice, a writer and the director of this research center (…). In his book titled Gimp’s Legend, but published, in 1995, under the main title Psychoanalysis and neurosciences, the author speaks for psychoanalysis opening itself to other disciplines and for the possibility of a new questioning about castration. The lacanian elaboration has a great part in it.
He is interested in a series of pathologies, as the neurological phenomenon of the ghost member, Parkinson’s disease and obsessional nevrosis. Through these varied pathologies, J. Friedler tries to go from the signifiant to its background, in the purpose of showing the psychic apparatus is related to invariants, explaining the repetition of som structures and from which we could find biological sources today.
La Moire is mostly a place of reflexion, which vocation is to confront psychoanalysis to other disciplines, so the lattest could bring to the first their contributions, knowledges and experiences. So, the tuesday’s seminar about the encephalon structures tackled the subject of melatonin, mechanisms of vision and the obsessional-compulsive troubles pathology.
The thursday’s seminar, for its part, is an incursion in the field of oriental philosophies. The Sunday’s seminar about moral law wors in the light of Freud’s latest book, Moïse and monotheism.
Eventually, working groups were formed, in one hand, around themes from the encephalon structures seminar and, on other hand, around the global theme of the profane psychoanalysis and, especially, the question of analysts’s education and practice. But La Moire wants also to be a place of inforamtion and develops in this purpose a library and a documentation center