Issue 64 Spring 2017 (Pages 1-13) What Is Anxiety? Barry O’Donnell In his comprehensive and scholarly Hearing Voices, The History of Psychiatry in Ireland Professor Brendan Kelly writes ‘In the early twentieth century, the preeminent intellectual movement of the day, … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 08 (Autumn 1996) pages 104-113 Ella Sharpe (1875-1947) came to psychoanalysis from a background in literature, particularly Shakespeare, and teacher training. She became a student of psychoanalysis at the Medico-psychological Clinic in London in 1917 and three years later … Continue reading
THE LETTER 09 (Spring 1997) pages 61-72 In the Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan announces: The psychoanalyst is the presence of the sophist in our time …’. In this paper I will investigate this provocative statement. The paper is divided … Continue reading
THE LETTER 10 (Summer 1997) pages 40-72 Introduction Lacan decided that an analysis of the Symposium of Plato in his Seminar of 1960 – 1961 would be an illuminating detour by which to investigate the transference relation in psychoanalysis. This … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 51-65 This paper is about sex. And if it is about sex, it is about number. In the final weeks of the Seminar entitled Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan identifies what has been a … Continue reading
THE LETTER 15 (Spring 1999) pages 125-137 There is a presupposition in the term ‘false memory syndrome’ that there are memories that are true and memories that are false; that a false memory is something fabricated and that it therefore … Continue reading