THE LETTER 61 Spring 2016, pages 23-31 This paper explores what is at stake when speaking about the Psychoanalytic Act – this with reference to Lacan’s ‘67-’68 seminar of the same name. The central place of Freud’s repetition compulsion as … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 01 (Summer 1994) pages 111-116 If, as Lacan says in his Seminar of 1972, Encore, to understand any discourse whatsoever we have to begin with the enunciation that there is no sexual rapport and that from this all … Continue reading
THE LETTER 05 (Autumn 1995) pages 68-90 Lacan tells us in The Formations of the Unconscious (1957-58) that Freud, in his search for the Symbolic Origin and the Real Origin of the primitive chain in the history of the subject, … Continue reading
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 24-31 In a paper submitted to the British Journal of Medical Psychology in 1943, Ronald Fairbairn, the Edinburgh based psychoanalyst wrote Freud’s libidio theory has remained relatively unquestioned. This is a situation which I … Continue reading
THE LETTER 08 (Autumn 1996) pages 95-103 Lacan makes it clear in his Seminar on Anxiety that anxiety is a phenomenon, that it has an object and moreover there seems to be a precise place where we can locate this … Continue reading
THE LETTER 14 (Autumn 1998) pages 39-61 As the President of the United States of America William Jefferson Clinton signed the new Electronics Treaty at Gateway Computers in September of this year, we are reminded that home may no longer … Continue reading