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Issue 71 now available

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Dedicated to the memory of Charles Melman, issue 71 collects together in one volume the rich contribution made to The Letter by Charles Melman over the last 30 years. This issue also contains several articles by Charles Melman appearing in English translation for the first time.

Articles (10)

May 31, 2014 ∙ 13 min

Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis: A Later Lacanian Critique of the 388 in Québec City

This paper attempts to assess the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic illness at a publicly funded centre in Canada. This treatment...

Oct 1, 2013 ∙ 14 min

Delusional Ideas of God and the Devil

This paper demonstrates that both psychoanalysis and theology have understood God and the devil to be two sides of the one coin...

Mar 1, 2012 ∙ 10 min

What Freud Learned in Theodor Meynert's Clinic

This paper examines what Freud learned from the famous Viennese psychiatrist, Theodor Meynert, during his time at Vienna’s second...

Mar 1, 2010 ∙ 2 min

Issue 43: Editorial

This issue of The Letter concentrates on Lacan's heterogeneous topology in L’étourdit (1972) as an application of his “there is no sexual...

Sep 30, 2009 ∙ 2 min

Issue 42: Editorial

This issue of The Letter opens with a psychoanalytic discussion of “case presentations” in psychiatric hospitals and elsewhere. Where...

May 31, 2009 ∙ 2 min

Issue 41: Editorial

This issue of The Letter concentrates on Lacan's L'Etourdit from 1972, published in Scilicet in 1973. While Charles Melman had originally...

May 31, 2009 ∙ 14 min

Schreber in L’Etourdit

This article examines Lacan's interpreting Schreber in terms of the “not all” of the formulae of sexuation. It demonstrates how a...

Mar 1, 2009 ∙ 12 min

Schizophrenia in Freud and Lacan: No Return to pre-Kraepelinian Bewilderment

This article argues that while Freud accepted Kraepelin’s nosological divisions, he reversed the order of late nineteenth century...

Sep 30, 2008 ∙ 2 min

Issue 39: Editorial

The previous issue of The Letter appeared in 2006, the year we celebrated the 150th birthday of Sigmund Freud. This year is no less...

Sep 30, 2008 ∙ 7 min

Kant’s Nothings and Lacan's Empty Object

Guy Le Gaufey’s critical reading of Lacan’s formulae of sexuation has traced the historical course of the invention of Lacan’s object...

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Recent Articles

Editorial Issue 70

Editorial 2021 brought us the continued challenge of working within Covid restrictions and I’m pleased to say that despite these...

Nocturnal Whispers

While acknowledging that the inevitable encounter with language is the traumatic encounter par excellence that structures subjectivity, this

Sick, Dying, Dead, and Buried…Rotten and Forgotten

This paper explores Lacan’s concept of the second death and its significance for an ethics of psychoanalysis.

Tom Dalzell

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