ABSTRACT
We are used to saying that madness is at once the symptom showing what cannot be said, and the research tool needed by erased elements in catastrophic zones, which strive to find inscription. Hence the paradoxical nature of our practice: these elements may be known in the official history, without being part of the transmission. Bion warns that the analyst must remain wary of the “everyone knows that” attitude. Of course everyone knows, but if “that” is not validated by another, the subject of that historical truth cannot emerge. On “that” point, it is identified with the event whose inscription can only occur through the interference of transference. This year, the books I propose for our research are The Fourth Book by François Rabelais 1 and The Song of My Life by Yvette Guilbert. 2
