On July 8, 2010, Dr Maryse Touboul will make a presentation at the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)'s annual conference, which will take place in San Francisco, about :

A NEW LANGUAGE FOR A NEW WORLD

Sigmund Freud said regression won over progress. The world we live in is indeed based on an old language of regression. But there can be no progress without regression, and the time has come to envisage a new world based on a new language that will allow real progress toward consciousness and humanity.

This old language is that of the Unconscious: a language of death with its trilogy of lack, suffering, and hate; a language of dependence (our “natural” story), which obeys the laws of the other. Like Jacques Lacan said, “The Unconscious is structured like a language.”

The question is how to pass from an old age repeating this old destructive language to a new age based on a new language, meaning a new way of thinking, doing and living according to new values: the laws of life.

This passage is possible today by making a new language based on the consciousness of our desire to become the subject of our self, and to bring together our individual and social/political identities. This new language involves getting out of the Unconscious’ symbolic time and order, to enter real time: each day of our life.

This is the passage from an inhuman subject (that of the Unconscious, already made) to a human subject, our own, which we need to make, consciously, through our experience of everyday life, and not based on ideas about life. This way, entering a new world, with a new mentality and language, will be possible.

Click here to read the full presentation (pdf, 55 kb)