This talk given by Lacan as a contribution to a program of lectures for trainee psychiatrists deals with the place of psychoanalysis in the formation of the psychiatrist, with the treatment of the psychotic as its central theme. The anxiety … Continue reading
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This paper was given at the conference in All Hallows on 10 June 2011.1 It deals with the influences on Freud‘s often neglected religious formation and his own subjective tendency towards religious superstition. This forms the background to his seminal … Continue reading
This article focuses on Lacan‘s eighth seminar on Transference, specifically his references to Plato‘s Symposium, and more particularly the attention he pays therein to the interaction and dialogue between Alcibiades, Socrates and Agathon. Addressed will be Lacan‘s specific take on … Continue reading
The final part of Guy Le Gaufey‘s book ―Lacan‘s Notall‖ – The Scholion: A Misuse of Metaphor, translated by Cormac Gallagher, deals with Lacan‘s treatment of the Borromean Knot and his attempt to use logic to deal with the problematic … Continue reading
This is the unedited text of a talk, given to the ―Matinées de psychothérapie institutionnelle‖, at Facultés Universitaires de Saint-Louis, Brussels on the 24th September 2010 dealing with the problematic of diagnosis in terms of a particular structure of psychosis, … Continue reading
Elyn Saks lives with her husband in California, where, after a brilliant academic career in some of the world‘s most acclaimed universities on both sides of the Atlantic—Vanderbilt, Oxford and Yale— she is now a professor of law specialising in … Continue reading