The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 1-2 Conference: ‘Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?’ 9th December 2017 in Marino Institute, Dublin Opening Remarks Cormac Gallagher Helen has asked me to open this conference and welcome you all. … Continue reading
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The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 3-10 An Intolerable Rejection Malachi McCoy In New Studies on Hysteria, Charles Melman identifies four concepts: traumatism, incompatibility, repression and unconscious. Beyond the image is to be found a repressed and rejected … Continue reading
The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 11-18 We See in Hysteria Something which is a Defence against Dissatisfaction Ros McCarthy Hysterical discourse is an attempt at creating a rapport with the Real of the body. The body’s expression … Continue reading
The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 19-25 Being a Stranger to Oneself Guy Le Gaufey Is there any kind of relationship between knowledge and fatherland? Between the fact of knowing something (a lot of things) and the fact … Continue reading
The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 27-35 Aliens, This Way Please Helen Sheehan This paper aims to consider the four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, as outlined by Jacques Lacan in Seminar XI. Special attention will be paid to … Continue reading
The Letter Issue 66-67 (Autumn 2017/Spring 2018) Pages 37-45 What Freud Allowed the Hysteric to Teach him Stephanie Metcalfe This paper aims to look at how, through working with hysterical patients, Freud developed the revolutionary technique of psychoanalysis which allowed … Continue reading