THE LETTER 19 (Summer 2000) pages 1-31 To begin with I would like to examine the relationship between anxiety and neurosis in the way Freud impresses it on us. Does a neurosis have a stabilising effect, even stemming anxiety or, … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 19 Summer 2000, pages 32-41 During his seminar of 9th January 1997 Charles Melman made the following remark: The 21st. Century will be Lacanian or it will be barbarian. What people call barbarian can be given a very strict, … Continue reading
THE LETTER 19 (Summer 2000) pages 42-49 I doubted my own existence, and even today, I have no faith in it, none, so that I have to say, when I speak, Who speaks, and seek and so on, and similarly … Continue reading
THE LETTER 19 (Summer 2000) pages 50-91 Introduction The subject the Cartesian subject, is the presupposition of the unconscious … The Other is the dimension required in order for speech to affirm itself as truth. The unconscious is, between the … Continue reading
THE LETTER 19 (Summer 2000) pages 92-116 Lacan reads Rousseau: a narrative instance of the body-in-pieces Book VII of Rousseau’s Confessions involves the story of an encounter between Jean-Jacques and Zulietta, a Venetian courtesan, which presents one of the richest … Continue reading
THE LETTER 20 Autumn 2000, pages 117-129 Formulation of the Problem: A New Diagnosis? The psychiatric landscape has undergone a lot of changes in the last couple of years. This constant evolution shouldn’t surprise us, considering its youthful existence and … Continue reading