THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 81-91. This paper is an account of an entrée by psychoanalytic methodology and practice into the public psychiatric service in what is now HSE Dublin North at St. Francis Day Hospital Raheny, chiefly … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 93-102. This paper attempts to assess the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic illness at a publicly funded centre in Canada. This treatment ‘after Lacan’ is thought to amount to treating delusions with the patient’s … Continue reading
THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 103-118. For the psychiatrist, negative symptoms are viewed as a sign of mental illness marked by a symbolic deficit. Symbolic deficit flags the imperative of the Real and as such is viewed … Continue reading
EDITORIAL The publication of Cormac Gallagher’s translation of Guy Le Gaufey’s acclaimed book Lacan’s Notall: Logical Consistency, Clinical Consequences in four segments, reaches completion in the current issue of The Letter with the appearance of the third chapter, Some Clinical … Continue reading
THE LETTER 54 Autumn 2013, pages 1-44. We have tried to follow as closely as possible the movements of the writing by which Lacan arrived at his formulae, in the hope of dissipating while doing so some stubborn obscurities, due … Continue reading
THE LETTER 54 Autumn 2013, pages 45-62. From Chamber Music to Finnegans Wake through the Sirens’ episode in Ulysses, we have the revelation of a man who cannot really be a writer without being a singer. Joyce is a mixture … Continue reading