THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 74-78 It is a characteristic of our minds to be ever engaged in passing judgement. John Henry Newman The performance of the function of judgement is not made possible until the creation of the … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 79-90 From the dawning of consciousness either collectively or individually, the human subject is faced with wonder, and the response that is evoked is the desire to know, the desire to understand, the Eros … Continue reading
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 91-98 Anxiety is so universal a human experience that it is remarkable only when it is absent. It is generally accepted as ubiquitous in the neurotic and the psychotic. Only the perverse individual seems … Continue reading
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 99-109 I want to begin by showing you a photograph of Paul Schreber as a young man, probably in his early thirties, before his marriage and before the suicide of his brother Gustav. This … Continue reading
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 110-117 The last time I experienced anxiety was around two o’clock this afternoon when Cormac Gallagher asked me to formulate the closing remarks of this Second Annual Congress of the Association for Psychoanalysis and … Continue reading