THE LETTER 51 Autumn 2012, pages 1-22. Here are two morsels of the psychoanalytic discourse (…ou pire): (1) ‘That one might be saying remains forgotten behind the said in what is understood’. 2) ‘This statement which appears to be assertive … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 51 Autumn 2012, pages 23-44. The signifier(S1) represents the subject ($) for another signifier(S2). In the master discourse the signifie, taken as a semblance (S1), can be used for something quite other, quite Other (S2). The master discourse … Continue reading
THE LETTER 51 Autumn 2012, pages 45-68. As early as his Three Essays, Freud accounted for sadism and masochism in terms of two, mirrored (or dialectically opposed) articulations of the self-same aggressive drives. More recently, attention has been drawn to … Continue reading
THE LETTER 51 Autumn 2012, pages 69-73. In his introduction to the Seminar on “The Purloined Letter” Lacan attempts to show how the real lies at the heart of that which, ordinarily, would be deemed to have happened by chance. … Continue reading
THE LETTER 51 Autumn 2012, pages 75-80. Lacan’s introduction to the seminar on the Purloined Letter is couched in a mathematical language which can be a little intimidating. This paper attempts to sift through some of the outer layers of … Continue reading