Issue 57: Editorial

Readers of The Letter will be aware that, over the past few years, we have been engaged in bringing Lacan's L'Etourdit, his great final écrit (1972) to you in a serialised form. This has been made possible thanks to the availability of Cormac Gallagher's painstaking translations not only of L'Etourdit but of Christian Fierens' accompanying Lecture de L'Etourdit. The line-by-line commentary of Fierens, on this most difficult and hermetic of Lacan's written works has proved essential for those of us who continue to try to make sense of the vital elaborations that Lacan was introducing even in his 72nd year.…