THE LETTER 05 (Autumn 1995) pages 33-49 Introduction We often consider gambling to be dangerous in the same way as drugs and alcohol: It is something to which we can become addicted. The destruction and deterioration caused by addictions reveals … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 32-43 If writing, according to the king and under the sun produces the opposite effect from what is expected, if the pharmacon is pernicious, it is so because it doesn’t come from around here. … Continue reading
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 63-73 The aim of this paper is to explore the connection between the context within which anxiety is manifested in the clinic and the psychic structure of the analysand. It is usually held that … Continue reading
THE LETTER 07 (Summer 1996) pages 21-39 Question: Can you tell us of your current professional occupation, what it is that you do and where? Mark Solms: At the moment I am working in three different contexts, by which I … Continue reading
Editorial Has Psychiatry no shame? This week an eminent British Journal of psychiatry published its finding on the subject of ‘false memory syndrome’ and ’recovered memory’ of sexual abuse during ‘talking cures’. While the level of naivete of the ensuing … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 94-98 Desire represents one of the more elusive terms in Lacanian theory. In his paper on Subversion of the Subject and Dialectic of Desire, Lacan far from cedes ‘to a logicizing reduction where it … Continue reading