THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 93-102. This paper attempts to assess the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic illness at a publicly funded centre in Canada. This treatment ‘after Lacan’ is thought to amount to treating delusions with the patient’s … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 54 Autumn 2013, pages 63-72. This paper demonstrates that both psychoanalysis and theology have understood God and the devil to be two sides of the one coin. Concentrating on Freud’s 1911 Schreber case and his 1923 case of … Continue reading
THE LETTER 49 Spring 2012, pages 65-72. This paper examines what Freud learned from the famous Viennese psychiatrist, Theodor Meynert, during his time at Vienna’s second psychiatric clinic in 1883. It argues that psychoanalysis’ refusal to accept unscientifictheories of mental … Continue reading
Issue 41 (Summer 2009) Pages- 115-125 This article examines Lacan‟s interpreting Schreber in terms of the “not all” of the formulae of sexuation. It demonstrates how a substitution of the exception and the masculine universal for the missing Name-of-the-Father and … Continue reading
Issue 40 (Spring 2009) Pages-7-17 This article argues that while Freud accepted Kraepelin’s nosological divisions, he reversed the order of late nineteenth century conceptions of psychosis, objective-biological and subjective-biographical, without returning to early nineteenth century Romantic psychiatry or obviating the claims of biological psychiatry on … Continue reading
Issue 39 (Autumn 2008) Guy Le Gaufey’s critical reading o f Lacan’s formulae o f sexuation has traced the historical course o f the invention o f Lacan’s object. Lacan’s objet a is not the specular object corresponding to his early concentration … Continue reading