Editorial We continue with Cormac Gallagher’s translation of Lacan’s L’Étourdit. The First Turn: the signifier and the absence of sexual relationship, was published in The Letter, Issue 41, Summer 2009. The Second Turn, first part was included in The Letter, Issue … Continue reading
Editorial It is worthy of note that in this issue of The Letter all the articles have been the outcome of work in the cartels of the ISLP, thereby actualising the assurance of The Founding Act that what is written … Continue reading
This issue of The Letter concentrates on Lacan‟s heterogeneous topology in L’étourdit (1972) as an application of his “there is no sexual rapport” to saying, and on Frank Wedekind‟s play Spring Awakening, which anticipated both Freud‟s theory of sexuality and … Continue reading
This issue of THE LETTER opens with a psychoanalytic discussion of “case presentation” in psychiatric hospitals and elsewhere. Where Kraepelin tended to treat his patients as objects when presenting them to his students, Cormac Gallagher argues for the particularity of … Continue reading
This issue of THE LETTER concentrates on Lacan’s 1972 test L’étourdit, first published in Scilicet in 1973. While Charles Melman had originally advised against it’s publication, and Christian Fierens has asked “is it readable?”, one of the cartels of the … Continue reading
For Ten Weeks, from late November 2008 to late January 2009, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers remained at number one in the New York Times list of Best Selling Non-Fiction. A curious coincidence between the date of Barack Obama’s election victory and … Continue reading