THE LETTER 01 (Summer 1994) pages 95-102 The Discourse of Analysis According to Oscar Wilde, “education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”. What … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 1-20 Introduction In 1896 Freud proposed the theory that hysterical obsessive neurosis was caused by an actual sexual encounter between father and child. The first hint of a movement away from the seduction theory … Continue reading
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 13 (Summer 1998) pages 125-127 Is it misguided to write a ‘beginners book’ on a thinker as complex, obscure, fluid and rich as Lacan? It depends perhaps, on to whom the book is addressed. In the opening to … Continue reading
THE LETTER 14 (Autumn 1998) pages 65-86 ‘…why isn’t everyone a drinker?’ de Mijolla and Shentoub Introduction It is a remarkable fact that there is no real substantial psychoanalytic theory of addiction, especially given that Freud had clinical experience of … Continue reading
THE LETTER 17 autumn 1999, pages 63-69 In three letters written by Freud in 1908 and addressed to Jung, references were made to the addiction of their colleague, the rebellious and burlesque, Otto Gross. It is most peculiar that these … Continue reading