Oscar Zentner – From the Lacan-Joyce Correspondence
 
THE LETTER 37 Summer 2006, pages 8-17
 
What is the neutrality of the analyst?
If not exactly this, the subversion 
of sense, that is a kind of aspiration, 
not towards the real, but by the real
Jacques Lacan
 
Mors aut honorabilis vita
James Joyce
 
On the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday I gave in Melbourne the reasons for, as well as my thoughts on, my debt to Joyce. Following on from that, in the land of Ire, and in Dublin, his city, I wonder if we can miss the irony that it is only over Joyce’s dead body that we are today here as analysts.