THE LETTER 50 (Summer 2012) pages 61-76 FOREWORD It is amusing to know that the word “subject”, which appears to assemble in it the essence of what makes man a rational animal, is also used to mean “a corpse used … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 50 (Summer 2012) pages 77-83 The evolution of psychoanalysis under Freud, then Lacan, reveals that although psychoanalysis was originally a therapy, that is no longer the case. Today, the true function of psychoanalysis is to bring mankind into … Continue reading
Editorial This issue contains the Second Turn of L’Etourdit, Chapter Three: Sense and Structure, consisting of the four sections, (i) Sense and Teaching (ii) Structure (iii) the Modification of the Structure and (iv) the End of Analysis. This again is … Continue reading
THE LETTER 49 (Spring 2012) pages 1-21 CHAPTER 3: SENSE AND STRUCTURE. 1. Sense and teaching Let us get moving here on the business of sense, promised earlier because of its difference to meaning. What allows us to grapple with … Continue reading
THE LETTER 49 (Spring 2012) pages 23-50. We forsake meaning in order to advance into sense. Castration no longer has the Freudian meaning but the sense which aims at the cut. The teachable starts not just from number but from … Continue reading
THE LETTER 49 Spring 2012, pages 51-63. This paper examines the representation of a psychoanalytic response to madness in the recent publication What is Madness? by Darian Leader. Drawing from the comments of Christian Fierens and Guy Le Gaufey and … Continue reading