Böcker av Petros Patounas

One ought to work, and one ought to convey desire into life as well: this is the reason for our presence- to become literal metaphors of the Ascesis to which we desire to dedicate our bodies. There is nothing else to say or write- I am bored to death when words are not real, meaning that when they indicate only the so called speaking-body, the flesh that speaks: this is what has killed God- words that are not companions to one's Act.

The introduction to psychoanalysis of my terms Breath, in the beginning as an object of the respiratory drive and then as the only true Das Ding-object of desire, and no incestuous at all, in fact it the incestuous signifiers and objects that kill the Breath, anyway- as I was writing, the Breath, Lunguage, and the ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿, took form and silhouette after a casual conversation with Penny Georgiou in London, where she interpreted something I was investigating at that time in her always simple and gentle way: "it is the Breath." And then I took it and a whole new dimension and possibilities for psychoanalysis have opened up in front of me, for subjects to define, construct and live according to their desire.

A first reading of Patounas' text doesn't make one think. It provokes a halting, a widening of one's eyes, a taking time to look at what has been written on the page; an enunciating of a writing whose generosity affords one the luxury of bathing in the experience of white spaces that its composition poses. In short, it stops one in one's tracks.

Petros Patounas infuses his words with the experience of his practice and makes another contribution to psychoanalysis. He transforms this interview into an orientation that urges psychoanalysts to surpass a threshold and lead themselves into another sort of practice that is not limited to the couch, but that it constitutes their mode of living. From the clinic of psychoanalysis that makes descriptions of the world with the Borromean knot, to the Ascesis of the Act that constructs the universe. From the subject supposed to know to the gnosis of faith, and from the desire for absolute difference to the desire for absolute union with the Act, where desire and the Act are One. From the rhetoric to the literal, Patounas' orientation is towards the Act as a means that provides one's desire with a body. And if desire is directed towards truth, then the Act makes the only truth.

The Breath sustains the Act in a new body, the No-Body which you are able to construct if you are willing to die and reborn away from the Other, into a new resurrected body that does not speak. It is Being Silent. Thus, Psychoanalysis is a breathing exercise going beyond the structures, a constant Kinesis, never repeating and resulting to the truth and the Act being one. This book is written for the Psychoanalyst, about psychoanalysis, involving the analysand with respect to the ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the ethics of life. Petros Patounas is daring enough to touch upon words like Faith, Desire, Alien, Act, Breath, ¿¿¿¿¿, Apraxia, only in a different context, a new context which transmits a true love for psychoanalysis and life itself.

Le titre ne fait pas référence à n'importe quel acte : Cet Acte est un Acte littéral. La caractérisation semble paradoxale car le sens littéral ne peut que concerner les figures de style dans le discours, comme la métaphore et la métonymie. Comment se fait-il qu'un acte puisse être littéral ? Mais c'est paradoxal précisément parce que nous avons limité la parole à la dimension du mot articulé par la voix. C'est à ce moment-là que Patounas innove, en faisant coupe au discours et en révélant la place de l'Acte: L'Acte est le moment où la parole n'est adressée à personne d'autre qu'à ce qui est Étranger au sujet, son Souffle. C'est un mouvement (Kinésis) de pur désir, une écriture, autrement dit, une parole littérale. L'Acte est l'incarnation de la parole dans un discours qui n'est pas du semblant. Patounas explique comment cette incarnation de la parole donne à l'être humain, en tant que sujet de la parole, une nouvelle chair, un nouveau corps.

This book is a gospel on the subject of the ethics of the well-spoken, that is the speaking being of the ¿ct. An ori-entation for the analyst to a kinesis of flowing with the flux of the letter, where the subject's mark within the signifier instead of being counted in repetition of the same, it maps the difference, a topology of life emanated by the vector of desire. "On the Ascesis of Psychoanalysts" is an ascesis of swimming in language, where the swimming subject finds their own way of breathing, as if breath is something that needs to be taught, and though it is not, the breath of desire is repressed, and then through breathing language becomes lunguage. Petros' unique writing leads the reader to an also unique reading experience. His text not only praises the desiring subject of the ¿ct, the ¿¿¿¿¿, but with its vanishing grammar it becomes an inscription of it, it be-comes an ethical compass to the desire of the analyst. Angelos Tsialides Lacanian Psychoanalyst