THE LETTER 63 Autumn 2016 pages 97 – 102 The Narcisistic Ego: Functions and Fallacies 1 Nellie Curtin Ego therapies have as their aim the strengthening of the ego. This is in sharp contrast to Lacan’s statement that the ego is the … Continue reading
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Issue 63 Autumn 2016, pages 103 -107 What’s Love Got to Do with It? What ’s Love Got to Do with It?1 Audrey McAleese The mother-son relationship is examined with reference to Freud’s texts – including On Narcissism and Female Sexuality … Continue reading
Editorial Issue 63 opens with another remarkable chapter – this time the concludingchapter – of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse: A Second Reading of Lacan’s L’Étourdit (2012). It is accompanied by a sort of coda – Perspectives for the Psychoanalytic Discourse – … Continue reading
Issue 63 opens with another remarkable chapter – this time the concludingchapter – of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse: A Second Reading of Lacan’s L’Étourdit (2012). It is accompanied by a sort of coda – Perspectives for the Psychoanalytic Discourse – referencing … Continue reading
Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis – INTER-CARTEL STUDY DAY, SATURDAY JUNE 13TH ALL DAY … Continue reading
Editorial Jacques Lacan‘s talk on 10 November 1967 given to psychiatrists, translated by Cormac Gallagher, deals with the formation of psychiatrists, although his remarks are equally relevant to the formation of psychoanalysts. He emphasises that the madman, the psychotic, is … Continue reading