THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 1-13 Introduction On June 21 1922, as the Irish War of Independence was tipping over into the Civil War, – two months later Harry Boland, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins would all be dead … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 14-24 Introduction It is interesting that it was toward the end of his seminar for 1960-61 on the transference that Lacan first introduced the (o) object. This seminar on Transference had been largely devoted … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 25-40 Psychoanalysis is the science of the particular. J. Lacan Introduction The Telescope, Microscope and the Scopic Drive This paper summarises some of Lacan’s thinking on Velasquez’s Las Meninas, a painting that art experts … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 41-47 Bruce Fink opens his latest book with the old joke: How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one, but the lightbulb has to really want to change! He goes … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 48-50 Indeed, in times like these, who needs Psychoanalysis? As we approach the close of the twentieth century, the human subject with a discourse of his own is in grave danger of extinction. We … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 51-65 This paper is about sex. And if it is about sex, it is about number. In the final weeks of the Seminar entitled Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan identifies what has been a … Continue reading