Welcome to Issue 16 of The Letter, Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
 
Excerpt from the Editorial:
 
"This issue of the letter opens with the text of one lecture given by Charles Melman at LSB college on his most recent trip to Dublin, taking addiction as its subject matter. The topic had been suggested by the prospective audience in light of the work being currently undertaken at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies in the college, under the guidance of Rik Loose, by staff and students of the Masters programme in Addiction Studies, attempting a psychoanalytic examination of the phenomenon. Melman’s lecture serves as a starting point to orientate and ground the possibility of the treatment of addicts, a treatment which he proposes begins with a proper naming of the drug the toxicomaniac is enraptured with; his fix is the ‘sexiolytic’, it does away with sex! And, given our own nation’s long acquaintance with addiction through the phenomenon of alcoholism, it only takes a moment’s reflection to realise that this sexiolytic effect has been common knowledge for a long time, only, less elegantly, we called it ‘brewer’s droop’."
 
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