ABSTRACT
The bibliographical investigation is phased – taking institutionality into account, as phenomenon of a simultaneously religious and legal factor. Idolatry is compared to murder – indeed, to suicide – and the fashioning of non-Christian images is condemned with the evocation of "les mains meres des idoles", rhetoric descending from Antiquity. Amidst the flood of studies provoked by contemporary culture – where technological considerations, frenzied prophecies, and managerial emphasis on communicational power tend to obscure or annul all serious problematization of instituted relation to images – it is nevertheless possible to orient oneself, to eventually take successful or promising theoretic efforts into account. The lacanian theme of a "Return to S. Freud" has inscribed itself as an exploitable fantasy for the imitators, and has taken on the sense of a canonic reform, producing fanatic believers more than students. Through theoretic abuses and irrational practices, this lacanism has ruined the clinic.
