THE LETTER 25 (Summer 2002) pages 1-16 Giving a commentary on this formula of Lacan according to which ‘the unconscious is the social1, implies accepting at first a curious decentering, since to postulate that the Oedipus complex is the organiser … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 25 (Summer 2002) pages 17-20 Addiction, like prostitution, is a phenomenon as old as the human race. Evidently they have something in common – their relationship to desire and enjoyment – and both pose a problem for the … Continue reading
THE LETTER 25 (Summer 2002) pages 21-38 Who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of ‘culture’, of our so-called high culture The earliest evidence of psychoactive drug use and knowledge of hallucinogenic plants … Continue reading
THE LETTER 25 (Summer 2002) pages 39-75 Despite the formidable size of his oeuvre, spanning a period from 1932 to 1980, Lacan is frequently summarized with reference to a single statement: ‘The unconscious is structured like a language.’ Both critics … Continue reading
THE LETTER 25 (Summer 2002) pages 76-92 What happens to the subject when confronted by speech or text whose origins or purpose are deliberately disguised? Irony, for example, is central to the clinical situation. The analyst is the one supposed … Continue reading
THE LETTER 25 (Summer 2002) pages 93-108 Freud made hardly any reference to the topic of supervision. When he did, as for example in his paper The Question of Lay Analysis (1928), he merely acknowledges its existence as a component … Continue reading