THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 1-8 Introduction This brief report is intended as a record of a quite unusual psychoanalytic meeting, which took place recently in a country that has had very little exposure to the discipline. Curiously, and … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 9-29 Dream interpretation constitutes a central axis of psychoanalytic treatment. According to Freud, analysts need to approach the manifest dream content as a form of pictographic writing, similar to a rebus, and should not … Continue reading
THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 30-38 By way of an introduction In what follows, firstly we will speak about the sacred character of the body, and its consequences for representation, mainly in writing. Chinese writing has the advantage of … Continue reading
THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 39-58 By way of introduction Freud made use of hieroglyphics (in dream analysis), whilst Lacan drew inspiration from Chinese writing. Having studied the basics of this, Lacan went so far as to say, ‘it … Continue reading
THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 59-74 Introduction: the moral stance Perversion is without any doubt one of the most difficult clinical categories, both as regards its study and the possibility of treatment. If we want to say something useful … Continue reading
THE LETTER 22 (Summer 2001) pages 75-96 In Lesson XXI of the seminar Anxiety, Lacan observes of a particular type of anxiety that it is not possible to speak about it without provoking at least some echo of it. He … Continue reading