Issue 42: Editorial

This issue of The Letter opens with a psychoanalytic discussion of “case presentations” in psychiatric hospitals and elsewhere. Where Kraepelin tended to treat his patients as objects when presenting them to his students, Cormac Gallagher argues for the particularity of the patient as subject by applying Lacan‟s formulae of sexuation to the clinic. He is critical of clinical vignettes being used in teaching, but he does see a place for the case presentation in the formation of psychoanalysts and he contends that Lacan's “re-presentations” at Sainte-Anne demonstrated the primacy of “saying” over “the said”.…