Issue 62: Editorial

We open issue 62 of The Letter with The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse the fifth chapter of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading of L’Etourdit (2012) translated by Cormac Gallagher in 2014.[1] To whet your appetite I will highlight some themes in this next-to-final chapter. We are immediately brought up short by the very first sentence ‘Each discourse brings into play a social bond without which it would not be a discourse.’ What then of the nature of the social bond in the psychoanalytic discourse or the social group where persons committed to psychoanalysis come together for a common purpose?…