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Cormac Gallagher

Issue 65

A Stranger To Myself

The need for Ignatian Spirituality to engage with Freudian psychoanalysis. Keywords: Ignatian Exercises; Id quod volo; Freud; Lacan...

Charles Melman

Issue 64

Why Am I Anxious?

With his opening question ‘Why am I anxious?’ Dr Charles Melman is addressing the psychoanalyst who, in the face of the hole in the big...

Audrey McAleese

Issue 59/60

An Incorrect Interpretation

This paper explores Ruth Lebovici’s question as to whether or not she has made an incorrect interpretation. Lacan’s critique offers...

Stephanie Metcalfe

Issue 58

Inside Bungalow 3: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

This paper aims to look at the pressing question of how we care for vulnerable members of our society. The shock and outrage that...

Cormac Gallagher

Issue 55/56

‘Blessed are the Pacemakers’: Dementia, Psychosis and The Psychoanalytic Discourse

Dementia has been described as the major mental health epidemic of the 21st century. Yet far from being the living death it was seen as...

Cormac Gallagher

Issue 47

What Can We Learn From Freud's Critique of Religion?

This paper was given at the conference in All Hallows on 10 June 2011. It deals with the influences on Freud‘s often neglected religious...

Terry Ball

Issue 47

Love in Plato's Symposium

This article focuses on Lacan‘s eighth seminar on Transference, specifically his references to Plato‘s Symposium, and more particularly...

Cormac Gallagher

Issue 46

Psychological Object or Speaking Subject: from Diagnosis to Case Re-presentation

There is a common view that there are two irreconcilable approaches to the understanding and treatment of mental illness. For most of...

Tony Hughes

Issue 45

Freud’s Group, Lacan’s Cartel and The Toric Organisation

Lacan put the work of the cartels at the core of the transformation of the analyst. His design follows Freud‟s model of hierarchical...

Cormac Gallagher

Issue 44

The Founding Act, the Cartel and the Riddle of the PLUS ONE

In his Founding Act (1964) Jacques Lacan established a School organised around small working groups tasked with enabling each individual...

Cormac Gallagher

Issue 42

The Patient as Actor: Notall in the Case Presentation

While the case presentation from Emil Kraepelin onwards has tended to obectify and medicalise the psychiatric patient, this paper argues...

Cormac Gallagher

Issue 41

Laytour, Latetour, L'Etourdit

This paper introduces L'Etourdit by first examining the places where Lacan taught – St. Anne, ENS, Sorbonne – as important places for him...

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