This article deals with the limits of words, images, and symbols and explores the idea that “residues” or “rests” may surface and rupture the tissue of conventional knowledge. L'Actuel, a notion developed in contemporary French psychoanalysis, serves as a guiding thread for this exploration. It points towards a kind of enigmatic “real” that may surface during the psychoanalytic session, “in presence,” specifically under cover of the transference–countertransference energy. It may either open to the identification and elaboration of an obscure nucleus of experience or surge as pure discharge and endanger the psychoanalytic session. Analogous “residues” resisting symbolic representation and meaning may also be identified at the levels of culture and history. Identifying them and grasping their significance requires a particular sensibility to discrepancy and unexpected recurrences. Breaking with ideas of beauty and harmony, contemporary art offers a privileged avenue for the emergence and treatment of traces haunting us as humans. Freud's notion of kulturarbeit is evoked in that context. [l'actuel; psychoanalytic sessions; cultural residues; hidden history]

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痕迹的力量

本文讨论了文字，图像和符号的局限性，并探讨了“残渣”或“残留物”可能浮出水面并破坏传统知识组织的想法。L'Actuel是当代法国心理分析中发展起来的一个概念，是这一探索的指导线。它指向一种神秘的“真实”，它可能会在精神分析过程中“在场”出现，特别是在转移-反转移能量的掩盖下。它可能使人们无法确定和阐述一个晦涩的经验核，也可能因为纯粹的放电而激增，并危及心理分析。在文化和历史的层面上也可以识别出具有象征意义和意义的类似“残留物”。识别它们并掌握它们的重要性需要对差异和意外重复发生特别敏感。打破美与和谐的观念，当代艺术为出现和处理困扰我们人类的痕迹提供了一条特权途径。在这种情况下，文化被唤起。[l'actuel; 精神分析会议；文化残留；隐藏的历史]