Lacan with Huxley or the historical-temporal drama of fetalization

Authors

  • Manuel Coloma École lacanienne de psychanalyse

Abstract

Lacan’s relationship with Huxley is almost unknown. However, there is an indication that allows us to glimpse the reception in the psychoanalyst of some type of influence received from the writer. Using the verisimilitude of the exchange, from a single mention by Lacan to Huxley, we will try to clear one of the most hermetic lines of the 1949 version of “The Mirror Stadium”, which refers to the effects of the fetalization. As this condition is a common theme between both authors, the dramatic aspect of the mirror stage –projected in subjective history– could come to be captured with a fictionalized version of the delay in human development.

Keywords:

Fetalization, Drama, History, Time, Fiction