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The Reverse Of Psychoanalysis - How Far?

Patricia McCarthy

Issue 24 — Spring 2002

111–126

In this brief article, my questions - to paraphrase Lacan - are preliminary to any possible theory of discourse! In that sense, I'm departing from the usual meaning given in English to l'Envers de la Psychanalyse, The Reverse of Psychoanalysis, Lacan's seminar of 1969-70. I am taking 'reverse' in its sense as a verb. To reverse is to return to where you've come from, to pick up something that you have left behind or to get a better look at something you've passed by too quickly.…

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