Editorial, Issue 62

Editorial We open issue 62 of The Letter with The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse the fifth chapter of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading of L’Etourdit (2012) translated by Cormac Gallagher in 2014. To whet your appetite … Continue reading

Flavia Goian – A Commentary on the Twelfth Session of Lacans’s XXIVth Seminar

THE LETTER 62 Summer 2016, pages 19-35 This paper is a commentary on some intriguing facets to his teaching introduced  by Lacan in this final session of his seminar of ‘76 – ’77 I’Insu que sait de l’unebévue s’aile à mourre. … Continue reading

Shirley Sharon-Zisser – Calliope’s Sc(D)ream – Feminine Jouissance In Aristotle’s Works on Language

THE LETTER 62 Summer 2016, pages 37-64 This essay offers a reading of three major Aristotelian works on language – the Rhetoric, the Poetics, and the Sophistical Refutations – with the theorisations of sexual difference in Freud’s essays on the … Continue reading