THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 1-8 Introduction This brief report is intended as a record of a quite unusual psychoanalytic meeting, which took place recently in a country that has had very little exposure to the discipline. Curiously, and … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 23 (Autumn 2001) pages 43-62 Pascals Wager … to which, from my Rome report on, I indicated that instead of a thousand other futile occupations, psychoanalysts should turn their gaze. Introduction Putting the title in this way is … Continue reading
THE LETTER 24 (Spring 2002) pages 1-22 Introduction Almost halfway through the year, Lacan makes a caustic reference to the just published 50th anniversary issue of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis: If you read the body of work that makes … Continue reading
THE LETTER 27 (Spring 2003) pages 1-31 Introduction The aim of this paper is modest. It is to stitch together with minimal commentary a selection of the sometimes clear, sometimes obscure, but always provocative passages that risk being lost in … Continue reading
THE LETTER 30 Spring 2004, pages 1-18 Introduction In a recent review of an exhaustive study on The Smiths – a 1970’s band – the writer remarks: “This is not a book for anoraks – it’s a book for anoraks … Continue reading
THE LETTER 33 (Spring 2005) pages 1-21 Introduction I cannot help being struck at the contrast between the Congress that we are participating in today and the 3T’s Conference on the response to suicide in modern Ireland that is also … Continue reading