The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 1-2 Conference: ‘Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?’ 9th December 2017 in Marino Institute, Dublin Opening Remarks Cormac Gallagher Helen has asked me to open this conference and welcome you all. … Continue reading
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Issue 65 (Summer 2017) Pages 89-97 Alienation in the Spiritual Exercises The need for Ignatian Spirituality to engage with Freudian psychoanalysis. Keywords: Ignatian Exercises; Id quod volo; Freud; Lacan; Psychoanalysis What I do is me: for that I came. … Continue reading
THE LETTER 01 (Summer 1994) pages 1-16 Introduction This morning I am going to try to approach a topic which has been in the back of my mind for many years and which the theme of this congress and the … Continue reading
THE LETTER 02 (Autumn 1994) pages 87-111 Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem…. Cardinal Newman Introduction The debate carried on through his Ecrits is, Lacan wrote in 1966, “le debat des lumires” – the age-old intellectual struggle pursued by men … Continue reading
THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 109-124 Introduction Whatever the outcome of our debate on the existence or non-existence of hysteria, I think we can agree in advance that it will be a long time before the Hysteria Association of … Continue reading
THE LETTER 05 (Autumn 1995) pages 1-17 Background At a press conference during the Ecole Freudienne de Paris Congress in Rome in 1974, Jacques Lacan got involved in a question-and-answer session of a type guaranteed to set on edge the … Continue reading