Welcome to Issue 62 of The Letter, Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
 
Excerpt from the Editorial:
 
"We open issue 62 of The Letter with The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discoursethe fifth chapter of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading of L’Etourdit (2012) translated by Cormac Gallagher in 2014. 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 discourseor the social group where persons committed to psychoanalysis cometogether for a common purpose? ‘Psychoanalysis and the question of the unconsciousgive no place to persons as such’, so that any grouping is foundedon an ‘irreducible difference’ between the subject of the unconscious and theperson.’ Acknowledgement of this irreducible difference does not render thesituation of the psychoanalytic group – or any other type of group for that matter,husband and wife, family, teacher and pupil, analyst and analyser – hopeless. Rather, the very impossibility or the structural instability that governsany group becomes the means ‘to make work all the better the impossibilityof the sexual relationship and the subject-effect which determines any groupformation.’ Work, that we in ISLP at the very least, surely mustn’t shirk."
 
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