THE LETTER 02 (Autumn 1994) pages 69-86 The first symbolic binary language of “fort” and “da” introduces the subject to the world of the signifier, in which desire is implicated. The signifying chain implies an historicization of events – “fort” … Continue reading
Category Archives: Aisling Campbell
THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 36-44 The topic of my discussion today is one which may not impinge very much on the practice of analysts, but about which, nevertheless, I think analysis has something to say. I am going … Continue reading
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 27-43 I put my title in the form of a question initially; that was because there is something about this Freudian concept of the death drive that always raises a question. Do you ‘believe’ … Continue reading
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 148-150 It seems appropriate that a congress on Freud’s Pre-Analytic writings, recognised as crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, should be held in a city that is itself so eminently ‘historic’. A distant view … Continue reading
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 91-98 Anxiety is so universal a human experience that it is remarkable only when it is absent. It is generally accepted as ubiquitous in the neurotic and the psychotic. Only the perverse individual seems … Continue reading
THE LETTER 07 (Summer 1996) pages 12-20 It is a common practice among psychoanalysts in Ireland – and no doubt in other countries also – to bemoan the lack of awareness of psychoanalysis among the general population. To this is … Continue reading