THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 1-12 For many reasons, we are led to translate the Lacanian objet a into the English-Lacanian object o, picking up on the first letter of the little other, as Lacan in fact did to … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 13-26 Reflecting for a moment on the title that I found I had chosen for this paper today, it occurred to me that, for those of us whose mother-tongue is English at least, this … Continue reading
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 27-43 I put my title in the form of a question initially; that was because there is something about this Freudian concept of the death drive that always raises a question. Do you ‘believe’ … Continue reading
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 44-58 It is remarkable at an international psychoanalytic congress to have to opt for English or French and not be able to use the language of Freud. Something has happened to the language of … Continue reading
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 59-75 Two women have fascinated me for many years: I use the word women’ deliberately for, though both are in fact literary creations of Shakespeare, both, from my first ‘meetings’ with them, evoked in … Continue reading
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 76-98 The argument advanced in this paper is a tentative one, based on patterns of resemblance rather than one of a confidence in the clarity of consequences derived from well grounded concepts. Nevertheless, the … Continue reading