THE LETTER 31 (Summer 2004) pages 1-8 Nuts, sluts, perverts, prostitutes, slags, murderers, psychopaths, militants, muggers, rioters, squatters and scroungers are all social censures with the potential to mobilise the forces of law, order and moral purity against targeted sections … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 31 (Summer 2004) pages 9-23 Law and desire – these are two terms that have been taken together in ethics and in the moral tradition. They have been usually considered as opposites, even in some psychoanalytical orientations where … Continue reading
THE LETTER 31 (Summer 2004) pages 24-42 E.M. Forster’s A Passage To India is often regarded as a social or political commentary on the British in India, but according to Forster himself, it is much more than that. It is … Continue reading
THE LETTER 31 (Summer 2004) pages 43-51 The name ‘Stendhal’s Syndrome’ was first given by the psychiatrist Graziella Magherini in about 1988 to a strange illness which seems to afflict a proportion of visitors to Florence. Tourists arrive at the … Continue reading
THE LETTER 31 (Summer 2004) pages 52-66 The symptom is the way in which each person derives jouissance from the unconscious. The neurotic comes to analysis for two reasons: to decipher the truth of the unconscious message she believes is … Continue reading
THE LETTER 31 (Summer 2004) pages 67-78 What follows is the text of a talk presented at the sixth annual conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups held in Omaha, Nebraska in September 2004. The APW began several years ago with … Continue reading