JEAN ALLOUCH: A TURNING POINT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Abstract

This article proposes that certain developments in Jean Allouch’s work constitute a significant turning point for contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly regarding the status of eroticism. Drawing on the Lacanian notion of erotology, it examines the shift from a theory of sexuality to an erotic practice traversed by history, the body, desire, and current political transformations. The paper reconstructs a trajectory that runs from the seminar delivered by Allouch in Córdoba in 1997 to his formulation that “psychoanalysis will be Foucauldian or it will cease to exist.” It also highlights the importance of Stonewall, criticizes the persistence of sexual binarism in Freud and Lacan, and proposes a new erotics capable of rethinking clinical practice, politics, and theory within the contemporary international psychoanalytic field.