Issue 44 (Summer 2010) Pages – 59-65

This article contrives to illustrate the fact that committing oneself to participation in a cartel requires an informed leap into the unknown; that operating in obscurity demands radical questioning of received as well as preconceived ideas; that words and meanings outside Lacan‟s texts are limited, and inside, incomplete. Yet in the „not-alls‟ and the „half-saids’ of the cartel we can form a social bond… by way of the psychoanalytic discourse.

The Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (also referred to in other articles in this issue), was formed in 2008 to further the work of psychoanalysis as elaborated by Jacques Lacan in the Founding Act, Adjunct and Preamble.1……