The South American psychoanalyst and the institution

Variations from Borges

Abstract

The author leads us through the survey of traditions as it refers to conservation and transgenerational transmission and this question is considered from the Borgesian text Pierre Menard, Don Quixote’s author, where the character proposes not to copy or emulate, nor to pay tribute to the author but to write point by point the same and identical text. Together with other texts it alludes to Borges' concern for repetition and change, the one and the double. The author considers the impossibility of identical and absolute transmission to think about how institutions  produce a transmission that include variants within the reproduction of the same thing. Introduces the concepts of revolution and re-evolution. This question is correlated with that of transmission through the fundamental texts. He takes Borges' reflection who maintains that texts that are transmitted without variations are rather religious texts or products of fatigue, the same when you want to transmit their essence without variations, you end up failing. And this can apply to the works of Freud, Lacan, and other authors. Following Borges, he emphasizes that the most traditional is the varied. Traditional includes some betrayal.