It is not inappropriate that now, when on the one hand psychoanalysis is being questioned once again as to its scientific status and when on the other hand there is in Ireland a great flowering of interest in both the … Continue reading
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Psychoanalysis bears witness to the unhappy reality that underpinning the subject of knowledge is a radical yearning for ignorance. Who should want to know that moment in suspense where the person comes to the meaning of his existence, if it … Continue reading
The proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), held last November at St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin are contained in this issue of The Letter. Its topic was Studies on Hysteria -100 years … Continue reading
This issue of The Letter opens with a paper by Julien Quackelbeen which addresses the question of what answers psychoanalysis can provide to Kant’s questions, -What can I know? What ought I to do? Whay may I hope for?, – … Continue reading
Introduction Lacan, at a certain moment in his teaching, seized upon the story of a letter to illustrate how it is that, circulating before the mutism of some and the blindness of others, this letter is the original, radical subject … Continue reading
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (French: [ʒak lakɑ̃]; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called “the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud”.[2] Lacan’s post-structuralist … Continue reading