Issue 42 (Autumn 2009) Pages- 109-126 In Seminar VII, Lacan makes the claim that Saint Paul and Freud tell us the same thing about the Sovereign Good in that what they each articulate about the law and pleasure constitutes a … Continue reading
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Editorial This issue of The Letter concentrates on Lacan’s L’Etourdit from 1972, published in Scilicet in 1973. While Charles Melman had originally advised against its publication and Christian Fierens has asked ‘is it readable?’, one of our cartels has worked … Continue reading
Issue 41 (Summer 2009) Pages- 1-17 This paper introduces L‟Etourdit by first examining the places where Lacan taught – St. Anne, ENS, Sorbonne – as important places for him and meriting an introductory tour for non-Parisian readers of the text. … Continue reading
Issue 41 (Summer 2009) Pages- 19-29 The following is an extract from Christian Fierens‟ 2002 book, Lecture de L‟Etourdit. Lacan 1972 (Paris: L‟Harmattan, 2002), translated here into English by Cormac Gallagher. Preface Is it readable? As a writer Lacan‟s whole … Continue reading
Issue 41 (Summer 2009) Pages- 31-77 (5, 449) In contributing to the 50th anniversary of L‟hôpital Henri-Rousselle for the favour that my friends and I have received there in a work concerning which I will indicate what it has been … Continue reading
Issue 41 (Summer 2009) Pages- 79-95 This article suggests that in L‟Etourdit, the neologism “Vas” has a resonance for Lacan which returns us to the vase of the optical schema. By means of a drawing, an attempt is made to … Continue reading