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Lacanian Trials: Public Appeal in support to Elisabeth Roudinesco

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 6 June 2013

Lacanian Trials: Public Appeal in support to Elisabeth Roudinesco‏

We the undersigned, publicly denounce the outrageous words of Jacques-Alain Miller about Elisabeth Roudinesco, written in his blog on March, 7th 2013 and the new legal action he takes against her, as the president of the S.I.H.P.P. – the International Society for the History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis – regarding the “Mitra Kadivar affair”.

Elisabeth Roudinesco is a valuable historian, head of research in history since 1991 at University Paris 7 - Diderot. She is teaching a seminar at the École Normale Supérieure with great success and her work is recognised worldwide.

She has always supported petitions and actions to help persecuted psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and intellectuals in their countries (notably Rafah Nached and Raja Benslama). Nothing can tell Mitra Kadivar has been persecuted in Iran. And, several testimonies made by Iranian psychiatrists attest it.

The use of legal actions and invectives instead of intellectual debates is unworthy of a democratic society We call in psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, scholars and anyone who feel concerned by this public appeal in support to Elisabeth Roudinesco to sign it.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/soutien-a-elisabeth-roudinesco/

Lisa Appignanesi ( Director of Freud Museum, Professor in Literature and Medical Humanities, King’s College, University of London)
John Forrester (Head of Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, U.K.)
Eli Zaretsky (Professeur d’histoire, The New School, New York City)
Elisabeth Badinter (philosophe, écrivain).
Jean-Pierre Sueur (sénateur).
Michel Wieviorka (sociologue, directeur d’études à EHESS).
Jacques Le Rider (germaniste, historien, directeur d’études à l’EPHE).
Catherine Clément (philosophe, écrivain).
Michelle Perrot (historienne, professeur émérite, Université de Paris 7-denis Diderot).
Georges Vigarello (historien, directeur d’études, EHESS).
Gilles Pécout (historien, directeur du département d’histoire de l’Ecole normale supérieure).
Edgar Morin (sociologue, CNRS)
Daniel Widlöcher (psychiatre, psychanalyste, membre de l’APF, ancient president de l’IPA)
Jean Ziegler (sociologue, professeur à l’Université de Genève)
Benjamin Stora (historien, professeur à l’Université de Paris XIII)
Laure Adler (écrivain, journaliste, productrice à Radio-France, membre du conseil de surveillance du journal Le Monde)
Gisèle Sapiro (directrice de recherches au CNRS, directrice d’études à l’EHESS. Directrice du centre européen de recherches en sociologie, Université de Paris 1)
Fethi Benslama (psychanalyste, professeur de psychopathologie à l’Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot).
Raja Ben Slama (universitaire, psychanalyste, Faculté des arts et lettres de la Manouba, Tunisie)
Gilles Perrault (écrivain).
Pierre Zaoui (philosophe, maître de conférence en lettres à l’Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot).
Henri Rey-Flaud (psychanalyste, professeur émérite à l’Université de Montpellier).
Chawki Azouri (psychiatre, psychanalyste, chef de service, Hôpital Mont-Liban, Beyrouth).
Julia Borossa (historienne, directrice de programme en psychanalyse, Université de Middlesex, Londres).
Laure Murat (historienne, professeur au département d’études françaises et francophones de UCLA, Californie).
Patrice Chemla (psychiatre des hôpitaux, chef de clinique à l’hôpital Henri Ey, Reims).
Catherine Vanier (psychanalyste, membre d’Espace analytique).
Alain Vanier (psychiatre, psychanalyste, professeur de psychopathologie, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot).
Jean Michel Rabaté (professeur de langue et de littérature comparée à l’Université de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie).
Antoine Courban (professeur d’histoire et philosophie des sciences biomédicales, chef du département de Médecine et Humanités, Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth).
Jacques Hochmann (psychiatre, psychanalyste, membre de la Société psychanalytique de Paris et de l’IPA).
Jean-Louis Desmeure (chargé de mission pour le livre au Ministère des affaires étrangères).
Serge Tisseron (psychiatre, psychanalyste, docteur en psychologie, Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre).
Patrick Guyomard (psychanalyste,professeur de psychopathologie, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot, membre fondateur de la Société de psychanalyse freudienne).
François Pommier (psychiatre, psychanalyste, professeur à l’Université Paris-Ouest – Nanterre, membre du CNU, section 16).
Mario Wimmer (historien, Department Of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Catherine David (écrivain, journaliste).
Per Magnus Johansson (psychanalyste, historien, Université de Göteborg, membre d’honneur de la Société suédoise de psychanalyse affiliée à l’IPA).
C. Lucia Valladares (psychanalyste, professeur à la PUC-SP, Brésil).
Caterina Koltai (psychanalyste, professeur émérite à la PUC-SP, Brésil).
Frédéric Forest (docteur en sciences politiques, chercheur associé à l’Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot, administrateur civil).
Denis Reserbat-Plantey (auteur et réalisateur audiovisuel).
Martine Bacherich-Granoff (psychanalyste, membre de la Société de psychanalyse freudienne).
Anny Combrichon (psychiatre, psychanalyste, Lyon).
Jean Piel (historien, professeur émérite, Université de Paris VII).
Paul Lacaze (psychiatre, president de ALFAPSY).
Jean Garrabé (psychiatre, historien de la psychiatre, membre de L’Evolution psychiatrique).
Didier Cromphout (psychiatre, psychanalyste, expert auprès des tribunaux, Bruxelles).
Guy Sapriel (psychiatre, psychanalyste, président de Espace analytique).
Hervé Bokobza (psychiatre, psychanalyste, co-initiateur de l’appel des 39 contre la nuit sécuritaire).
Mario Cifali (psychanalyste, écrivain, journaliste, Genève).
Henri Deluy (écrivain).
Ignacio Garaté Martinez (psychanalyste, docteur en sciences de l’éducation, membre de Espace analytique).
Radmila Zygouris (psychanalyste, Fédération des ateliers de psychanalyse).
Gilles-Olivier Silvagni (psychanalyste).
Dominique Claudet (sociologue).
Françoise Wilder (psychanalyste, ancienne chargée de cours à la faculté de médecine de Montpellier).
Marie-Laure Dimon (psychanalyste et anthropologue, Collège international de psychanalyse et d’anthropologie, CIPA).
Pascale Hassoun (psychanalyste, membre du cercle freudien).
Mireille Cottin (assistante sociale en psychiatrie).
Jack Droulout (membre du CA de l’Association Jenny Aubry).
François Bing (psychiatre, psychanalyse, responsable d’un séminaire d’histoire de la psychiatrie, Hôpital Sainte-Anne).
Joseph-Lê Ta Van (psychanalyste, membre administrateur de Acte-Psychanalytique asbl, Bruxelles).
Monique Selim (anthropologue, directrice de recherches IRD, responsable de l’axe Travail et Mondialisation .UMR 201 Développement et sociétés IRD/P1).
Aurora Gentile (psychanalyste, membre de la Societé Italienne de psychothérapie psychanalytique. Naples).
Maria Izabel Oliveira Szpacenkopf (psychanalyste, membre d’Espace Analytique, chercheur au Latesfip /Université de São Paulo - Rio de Janeiro, Brésil).
Nader Aghakhani (psychanalyste, Croix-Rouge Française, Paris).
Houchang Guilyardi (psychanalyste, ancien psychiatrie des hôpitaux, président de Ravan Pajouhan, président de l’Association Psychanalyse et Médecine).
Torkghashghaei Esmat (psychanalyste et chargée de cours à l’université Téhéran)
Franck Lelièvre (philosophe)
Daniel Lemler (psychanalyste et psychiatre, chargé d’enseignement à l’Université de Strasbourg)
Jacques Postel (médecin chef honoraire du service psychiatrique de l’hôpital Sainte-Anne, président honoraire de la SIHPP, membre d’honneur de la Société française d’histoire de la médecine)
Laurie Laufer (psychanalyste, professeur de psychopathologie, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
Christian Hoffmann (psychanalyste, professeur de psychopathologie, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
Guy Dana (psychiatre, psychanalyste, membre du Cercle freudien)
Ruben Gallo (professeur associé de langue et de litterature comparée, Université de Princeton)
Jean Michel Vives (psychanalyste, professeur de psychopathologie clinique, Université de Nice)
Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge (psychiatre, psychanalyste, professeur à l’Université de Rio de Janeiro )
Benoît Peeters (écrivain)
Jean Jacques Moscovitz (psychiatre, psychanalyste, membre de l’association Psychanalyse actuelle)
François Caroli (psychiatre, vice-président de la Fondation pour la recherche en psychiatrie et santé mentale, hôpital Sainte-Anne)
Guido Liebermann (psychanalyste, historien, psychologue, Israël)
Roger Gentis (psychiatre)
Mireille Nathan-Murat (psychanalyste, membre de la Société psychanalytique de Paris et de l’IPA)
Michèle Skierkowski (psychanalyste, présidente des Cartels Constituants de l’Analyse Freudienne, CCAF )
Sophie Bessis (historienne)
Christian Godin (philosophe)
Gilles Sainati (magistrat)
Anne Bourgain (enseignant chercheur, Université de Paris 13)
Francis Hofstein (psychanalyste)
Carina Basualdo (psychanalyste, maître de conferences à l’Université de Nanterre)
Laurent Loty (chercheur au CNRS, président la Société française pour l’histoire des sciences de l’homme)
Gilbert Cabasso (professeur de philosophie)
Claude Delmas (écrivain)
Florence Plon (psychanalyste)
Michel Ellenberger (docteur ès sciences)
Françoise Hurstel (psychologue clinicienne, laboratoire de psychologie de Strasbourg)
Patrick de Neuter (psychanalyste, professeur émérite de psychopathologie à l’Université de Louvain)
Nicole Stryckman (psychanalyste, Association psychanalytique de Belgique)
Roger Ferreri (psychiatre, psychanalyste, chef du service de psychiatrie infanto juvénile, Centre hospitalier Sud francilien 91 Evry)
Guillaume Mazeau (historien, Université de Paris 1)
Jean-Jacques Blévis (psychiatre, psychanalyste)
Paulo-Roberto Ceccarelli (psychanalyste,professeur de psychanalyse, Université PUC-MG/UFMG - BRESIL, membre de la Société de psychanalyse freudienne )
Paul Stryckman (sociologue, Québec)
Cosperec Serge (philosophe)
Foad Saberan (psychiatre)
Evair Aparecida Marques (psychanalyste, Corpo freudiano de Rio de Janeiro)
Gilda Sabsay-Foks (psychanalyste, membre de l’Association psychanalytique argentine et de l’IPA, membre de l’Asocciation internationale d’histoire de la psychanalyse)
Carlos A.Uribe (psychanalyste et anthropologue, Colombie)
Anne-Marie Houdebine (professeur de linguistique et de semiologie, Université de Paris V-René Descartes)
Luiz Eduardo Prado de Oliveira (psychananalyste, directeur de recherche, Centre de recherche en psychanalyse, médecine et sociétés (CRPMS), Université de Paris 7 - Denis Diderot)
Nami Baser (écrivain, professeur de philosophie à l’Université Galatasaray et Notre Dame de Sion, Istamboul)
Jacques-Martin Berne (colonel du genie, diplômé de l’Ecole supérieure de guerre)
Joseph Illand (ingénieur)
Elisabeth Kapnist (réalisatrice)
Célia Bertin (écrivain, biographe de Marie Bonaparte)
Michael Randolph (psychothérapeute, secrétaire géneral du Syndicat national des praticiens en psychothérapie relationnelle et psychanalyse)
Anne-Marie Finkelstein (chef d’entreprise, promédiaconcept)
Patrick Landman (psychiatre, psychanalyste, membre de Espace analytique)
Mustapha Saha (sociologue, écrivain)
Christophe Girard (Maire du 4eme arrondissement de Paris, conseiller regional, vice-président de l’hôpital Sainte-Anne)
Cécile Vargaftig (écrivain)
Jean-Philippe Domecq (écrivain)
Valeria Lumbroso (réalisatrice de documentaires)
Eliane Contini (productrice d’émissions radiophoniques)
Bernard Condominas (éditeur)
Viviane Forrester (écrivain)
Susana Rodriguez (professeur à l’Université de Querétaro, Mexique)
Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira (psychiatre, psychanalyste, professeur à la faculté de medecine de Campinas)
Betty B.Fuks (psychanalyste, professeur, programme d’études supérieures de l’Université Veiga de Almeida / Rio de Janeiro).
Anne E. Berger (professeure de littérature et d’études du genre, Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis et Cornell University, Ithaca)
Eric Godelier (professeur des Universités, Ecole polytechnique)
Elizabeth Gouslan (écrivain, journaliste)
Bernard Vasseur (philosophe)
Jean-Claude Gayssot (ancien ministre)
Peter Schöttler (historien, directeur de recherches au CNRS, chercheur associé au Centre Marc Bloch de Berlin)
Carlo Bonomi (psychanalyste, historien, membre de l’IFPS et vice président de la Fondation Sandor Ferenczi)
Michel Arrivé (linguiste, écrivain, professeur des Universités)
August Ruhs (psychiatre, psychanalyste, Association psychanalytique de Vienne)
Jean Ristat (écrivain, directeur des Lettres françaises, supplément littéraire de L’Humanité)
Donna Landry (professeur de littérature, Université de Kent)
Marc Floriot (producteur, Radio-France)
Georges Wolinski (écrivain, dessinateur, journaliste)
Maryse Wolinski (écrivain)
Isabel Marazina (Psychanalyste, Docteur en Santé Publique, membre do LASAMEC (Laboratório de Saúde Mental Coletiva) FSP/USP, São Paulo, Bresil)


Yet another lawsuit and invectives from Jacques-Alain Miller

For a long time now, Jacques-Alain Miller, his family and members of their school (ECF) have gotten into the habit of letting out ad hominem invectives or suing anyone authoring a book or a film that does not share their opinions. It started in 2001 with a lawsuit against Le Seuil publishers and against Elisabeth Roudinesco. Then again the same year a lawsuit by three members of the ECF against a film on autism.
And now, our Society is being summoned by Jacques-Alain Miller for publishing in its February bulletins information and critical texts penned by its correspondents and external correspondents about the hospitalization in Tehran of Doctor Mitra Kadivar. She stayed in the Psychiatric ward of Professor Mohammad Ghadiri from the end of December 2012 to mid-February 2013 after a psychotic episode. Some of the information comes from: Foad Saberan, Esmat Torkghashghaei, Nader Aghakhani, Sophie de Mijolla.
The summons concerns the chairperson of SIHPP (Elisabeth Roudinesco) and its secretary (Henri Roudier).
Philippe Grauer also received a summons for giving on his website the same information, which can also be found on other websites. Mr Grauer is a Board member of SIHPP, chairperson of the Syndicat national des praticiens en psychothérapie et psychanalyse (SNPpsy) and Director of the Centre interdisciplinaire de formation à la psychothérapie relationnelle (Cifpr).
The three summoned persons will prepare their defense jointly. The date for the lawsuit at the Nanterre Court house is June 12th 2013.

Furthermore, we would like to draw your attention to the shocking words written by Jacques-Alain Miller (Blog of March 7th 2013) against Elisabeth Roudinesco, against her teachings, her writings and her collaboration with the newspaper Le Monde.
We are quoting the following : «Quand je pense que, sans mot dire, j’ai laissé des années durant Elisabeth traîner dans la boue chaque Séminaire que je sortais. Je croyais que mon silence était le signifiant de mon mépris. Je me demande s’il n’abritait pas quelque jouissance masochiste. Les maîtres aiment à expier leurs fautes sous le fouet des matrones (le latin pour dire ça m’échappe ce matin). Elle était ma plaie, mon cilice. Ou alors je pensais que c’était la fête à la grenouille, qu’il fallait lui laisser faire des bulles et barboter dans la gadoue, et que tout cela se payerait un jour. Comment savoir ce qu’on pense ? C’est impossible. Il n’y a pas les fausses confidences et les vraies, il n’y a que de fausses confidences. Signé Epiménide.
Non, car ceci au moins est vrai : Derrida plié en deux me montrant un passage d’elle dissertant de l’influence des Stoïciens sur Platon. Quels efforts cette autodidacte de génie n’aura-t-elle pas fait pour surmonter ses handicaps, et jeter un pont, ou du moins une passerelle, ou un pont de lianes, si ce n’est une corde, entre elle et la culture. A tout prendre, elle a plus de mérites que ceux qui sont tombés dans la marmite à la naissance. Le cru et le cuit : parmi les civilisés elle reste une sauvage. Elle fait peur. Et quelle constance ! Trente ans qu’elle tient sa position au Monde. Elle est tapie dans le clocher de l’église de Saint-Germain des Près, et tire sur tout ce qui bouge. Et même sur ce qui ne bouge pas, car de temps à autre elle lâche une rafale sur la dépouille de Lacan.»

Faced with this onslaught, Pierre Delion and Olivier Douville have drafted a collective appeal in favor of Elisabeth Roudinesco that has already been signed by many prominent figures. We call upon you to join them.
The SIHPP, with the support of the Henri Ey Library and Sainte-Anne Hospital consider that it is a fight in favor of the freedom of expression.


Psychoanalysis, between debates and proceedings by historian Thierry Savatier

There was a time when the intellectual quarrels had style. The controversies were settled by sections interposed jousts or testing publication. The "civilized" way to wear in public conceptual disputes, retail or sometimes more personal, does not exclude the passion, or the muscular arguments, but these exchanges reflect the freedom of expression that would normally animate any democracy. Today, however, this freedom is undermined each time that forum replace the courtroom.
The litigious society now extends to the exchange of ideas in the most frivolous pretexts. Should we see the transposition into the intelligentsia, this "desire criminal" had theorized Philippe Muray? The reality is probably more subtle, but more perverse. Indeed, the legal arsenal, where the object is warped its original intentions, serves less to get penalties that monetary compensation. Worse, the applicants when they have the financial means to assign the environment (even though they are aware that they will be dismissed to their low charges) all intrepid does not have the good fortune to please them. Their real purpose is in fact not so much to win a trial to silence any contrary expression to their opinion financially draining their opponents. For Justice assigned to expensive, sometimes in image deficit in lawyer fees ever.
Puritan factions, renamed "family association" are masters in the art of censure without saying, attacking for "pornography" creators and curators when the subject deals with eroticism, to discourage organizing new initiatives. In the realm of ideas, one wonders if others do not attempt to follow this path. Psychoanalysis, for example, is today the scene of repeated assignments. There was the lawsuit filed by Judith Miller Elisabeth Roudinesco for a short passage from his essay Lacan against all (that was discussed in these columns) trial, followed by another, brought by three psychoanalysts of the School of Freudian because chaired by Jacques-Alain Miller, against Sophie Robert, author of a documentary on autism entitled The Wall. Today, a new assignment for "criminal defamation", this time conducted by Jacques-Alain Miller is Elisabeth Roudinesco Henri Philippe Roudier and Grauer, all members of a learned society respected (International Society for the History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, SIHPP), following the publication of articles in their newsletter and on the IPHC (Interdisciplinary Centre for Training Relational Psychotherapy) website. To understand the meaning of this assignment, it should be placed in context.
On February 5, a petition was launched by Mr. Miller (and the inevitable Bernard-Henri Lévy ...), calling for the "liberation" of the Iranian analyst Mitra Kadivar, accepted December 24 prior to a psychiatric facility in Tehran. This call was echoed by newspaper articles and interviews that this confinement was presented as a political sanction Iran’s theocratic power against a troublesome therapist, there was talk of forced treatment, or even the threat of electroshock , as psychiatrists (though secular), they seemed to be likened to mere jailers to balance of power.
The dark memories of psychiatric hospitalizations during the Soviet era was entitled to move the intellectual world. And the shadow of Antonin Artaud hovered over assimilation (false) of the ECT as torture. That is why, besides the usual compulsive signatories never resist affix their initials as they are asked to have the illusion of existence, many personalities in good faith signed this petition where we find Philippe Sollers Julia Kristeva, but also for a time side by side, Jean-Francois Cope and Mélenchon.

Other intellectuals, especially called to join this initiative they had struggled in the past against abusive detentions, preferred to learn before deciding. Seemingly wise decision, because it results from a number of serious and consistent evidence that Dr. Kadivar was not the victim of a political sanction, but a subsequent hospitalization neighbors’ complaints of his building, and on a psychotic episode that motivated a court. Many psychoanalysts and psychotherapists Iranian confirmed these facts and complaints (verbal aggression, health problems, phonic pollution, car tires slashed neighbors, etc..) Of a neighborhood already worried the project announced by Mitra Kadivar open center substance abuse at home.
To justify the validity of the petition, Jacques-Alain Miller has released all of his correspondence with the Iranian psychoanalyst and other stakeholders, including the psychiatrist who treated at the hospital. However, this 68-page document (which can be found here), written in French and in English sometimes cooking, just to prove the reality of the internment policy. It all starts December 12, 2012, by email at Mitra Kadivar Jacques-Alain Miller, informing the project send in a psychiatric hospital by order of a magistrate. The exchange continues until December 24, the date of hospitalization. It follows from the rest of the file that the patient underwent special consideration: a VIP room, Internet access, the opportunity to communicate to the outside by phone and email, then almost daily visits of friends. Nothing in this information, betrays an arbitrary imprisonment, which, as in Soviet times, is still characterized by the isolation of the individual. As ECT, they are mentioned in an email that through a "fear" expressed by the patient, as any proposal nor his doctors, of course, as a threat.

Moreover, reading emails brings a surprising light on the personality of the analyst, which denies that his case be assessed by psychiatrists - preferring "a senior analyst" - and shouts to plot against her. Plot of its neighbors, not the state. She also said to have received support from the "Ministry of Intelligence" (Department of National Security and Intelligence) to postpone his detention, which, for the casual observer, discredits the unambiguous version a political sanction since the Iranian intelligence services are directly under the authority of the highest levels of Government.

In addition, on December 21, Dr. Kadivar to die for no apparent reason and reveals an amazing megalomania: "And do not compare me with Rafah Nashed you have elevated to a psychoanalyst in one night, please. From the Black Sea to the Sea of ​​China, I’m the only one and you know it better than anyone. "On the first point, the applicant has reason Rafah Nashed was arrested, charged baseless" activities that could lead to a destabilization of the state "and jailed in a common cell with thirty other women in September 2011. She was released on bail as part of an "amnesty" after two months. So both have nothing comparable.

The Quai d’Orsay does is also not wrong, since intervened to demand the release of Syrian psychoanalyst, but (presumably knowledgeable) refused to get involved in the case Kadivar. On the second point, it reveals a narcissism that confirm other emails, which show that Mitra Kadivar recognizes no authority to doctors and psychiatrists responsible for the care, it sometimes refers to "idiots" or "viper" and not, she says, "their level."

In this context, we must recognize Jacques-Alain Miller some phlegm in his heated epistolary exchanges with its "e-patient" unpredictable and often suspicious, although between advice given to his Iranian psychiatrist, he says that he "adores" before comparing Medea, Lacan and ... De Gaulle! Once, however, he policeman: "Now stop your games. The cup is full. The mail this morning, coming after a series of others, is both a folly and a provocation. [...] You do not abuse my patience more. I will not respond to any message from you, directly or indirectly, for three months, until March 31. After this time, if you persist, I would break any relationship. "

A review of these documents, it is difficult to believe that this hospital has relied on a mobile other than medical. There also was no stigma to suffer momentarily psychiatric disorders which psychoanalysts are no more immune than the common man. One might even consider that this measure was intended to protect Dr. Kadivar its environment. Indeed, Iran is a country community culture (within the meaning given to that notion the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede, intercultural specialist). But unlike European individualistic cultures, community cultures, the individual is neither by nor for itself and should only exist as a member of the social group in which he lives. His first concern will be to give up his desires if they do not fit into the body of normative rules of society, each subject to the eye and the judgment of others. Any violation of this binding framework is considered a deviance and sanctioned by the disapproval of the community, each feeling empowered to act to uphold the social order threatened, in the supposed interest of all.

The penalty may be up to ban the individual, but it may take more drastic forms when fundamentalist religion is superimposed on the simple patriarchal traditions. Such is the case in the Iranian theocracy, a fortiori because the division of roles between men and women are based on a strict hierarchy asymmetry both sexes. In other words, behaviors Mitra Kadivar, which fell in all likelihood of disturbing public order, he could probably have argued the prison and even physical abuse. It is thus reasonable to assume that the duty of care in a facility (which she also went under normal conditions February 14) allowed the escape of such retaliation. This aspect of Iranian culture can not be overlooked in favor of a purely vision occidentalocentrée because it assesses all the other circumstances of the case.
There is no evidence that the petition "liberation" of the psychoanalyst has rested on a fact of life, it was unknown to most of the 4,500 signatories. However, the best is, according to the adage, the enemy of the good, it will have the effect of attracting, large media reinforcements attention to Tehran on a profession just tolerated and necessarily bad reputation the eyes of the religious, with the risk of undermining the situation of local practitioners.

Articles published in the newsletter of the SIHPP alerted the public about all of these issues. Their editors chose for the occasion to appeal to irony, figure whose stylistic Sacha Guitry wisely taught us that fear, that fear was the reason ... We can thus read that Miller addresses his corresponding "a manic mode" and that he "gets totally red", there is also talk of a "cure by mail order Lacano Miller" and "politico-clinical miracles" of "personalities trapped "of dubious petition.

Then to consider that these texts do not fall within simple intellectual exercise within a democratic framework, but form the constituent elements of criminal defamation, there is not it would be risky to take. For irony creates a distancing effect that can not escape the reader, while the single injury happens any screen, any humorous intent. Thus, for comparison, when on March 7, in an article in his blog The Rules of the Game, Miller compares Elisabeth Roudinesco a "matron", a "wound", a "sackcloth," a " frog "and - the worst insult of all, with no doubt! - Trafficking of "self," we try irony or the expression of a second degree.
The editor will finally qualified historian of psychoanalysis "wild." But in doing so, it invites us to an interesting exercise in questioning. Indeed, in an email to Mitra Kadivar, the author wrote: "You’re the [psychiatrists] eaten alive. / You know, after all, civilization is cooked, explained Levi-Strauss. You, you are a savage. / Who does not waive anything, ever. Whatever risk. / A woman decided, what! A real woman. "

However, in his blog article, we noted the following sentence: "The Raw and the Cooked: among civilized, she [Elizabeth Roudinesco] is a wild. It’s scary. "And the reader to ask about these two, held a month apart, the two signifiers they have the same value? Why would it be a laudatory and other pejorative? That’s the kind of acrobatic exercise which should engage the trial court when searching for traces of defamation in a speech. This is especially reminiscent of the note Amine Azar describing a lecture by Jacques Lacan in Beirut in August 1973 conference "From Meaning: With the same words, exactly the same, describing an earthquake and a social evening.”