Terry Ball – Psychoanalysis – A Mapping out – Turning the symbolic inside out

The Letter 59 & 60 Summer – Autumn 2015, pages 57-62 This paper considers the notion of psychoanalysis as a ‘mapping out’ which was put forward by Lacan in his 24th Seminar, L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à … Continue reading

Patricia McCarthy – The Psychoanalytic Discourse Allows A Different Kind of Therapeutic Engagement in Psychosis

THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 103-118. For the psychiatrist, negative symptoms are viewed as a sign of mental illness marked by a symbolic deficit. Symbolic deficit flags the imperative of the Real and as such is viewed … Continue reading