Là où Ça joue

Abstract

The author distinguishes between manifest play and the metaphorical meaning of play as an unconscious process. On rereading Freud, one can count a certain number of " fields of play ", other than playfulness in the child. Appearing as a ruse of life in the face of the desire of non desire, the play of the unconscious is always a double game, symbolising a limit, whilst simultaneously striving to allow a glimmer of the end of lack. Its part in subjectivisation is studied, with play generating an identificatory position that cannot come about if it does not take place, even in the form of a symptom. Having specified the relations between the repetition of play in the transference and its interpretation, the article concludes with a formula : Where It (Ça, Id) plays, the I must become the author of the game of its unconscious. © Presses Universitaires de France.