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Dedicated to the memory of Charles Melman, issue 71 collects together in one volume the rich contribution made to The Letter by Charles Melman over the last 30 years. This issue also contains several articles by Charles Melman appearing in English translation for the first time.
Articles (20)
Mar 1, 2018 ∙ 15 min
A Foreign Tongue
This paper is a response to the question: Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant? The paper proposes that speech being strange to...
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Mar 1, 2017 ∙ 16 min
What is Anxiety
In his comprehensive and scholarly Hearing Voices, The History of Psychiatry in Ireland Professor Brendan Kelly writes ‘In the early...
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Mar 1, 2017 ∙ 12 min
Issue 64: Editorial
A crucial part of the work of the School of Psychotherapy in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin is to represent the contribution...
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Oct 1, 2014 ∙ 6 min
Notes on the Greek Expressions in Fragilities of Analysis
This phrase was brought to prominence in the work of Michel Foucault and is usually translated into English as ‘care of/for the self’...
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May 31, 2014 ∙ 14 min
Terms and Conditions: ‘Psychosis’ and Psychoanalytic Treatment
Psychoanalysis is a practice launched by a neurologist, Sigmund Freud, based on the interpretation of dreams, products of every mental...
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Jun 1, 2013 ∙ 11 min
Speaking Subjects
Close attention to Lacan’s writing provides a basis for discerning an account of subjectivity in terms of speech and in terms of the...
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Jun 1, 2012 ∙ 15 min
The Appeal Of Psychoanalysis
This paper gathers remarks made by Freud which differentiate the practice of psychoanalysis from psychotherapy. It will also draw from...
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Mar 1, 2012 ∙ 15 min
Questions Arising from Reading Darian Leader's What is Madness?
This paper examines the representation of a psychoanalytic response to madness in the recent publication What is Madness? by Darian...
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May 31, 2010 ∙ 12 min
What might a School be?
This paper is a response to Lacan‟s reference to the ancient philosophical schools when he was launching the school in 1964. It aims to...
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Mar 1, 2009 ∙ 17 min
Towards the Difference between Neurosis and Psychosis
This paper recommends that clinicians attempting to differentiate the structures of neurosis and psychosis take account of Freud’s...
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Sep 30, 2006 ∙ 5 min
Issue 38: Editorial
In a footnote to the opening page of his three volume biography Ernest Jones tells us of the error in the registration of the date of...
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Sep 30, 2006 ∙ 16 min
Discovering Transference
Today we are marking the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud. Why? Because he founded a new clinical...
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Mar 1, 2006 ∙ 8 min
Lacan's Invention
Lacan was always concerned with what was distinctive about psychoanalysis, with what is new with psychoanalysis, and why it is...
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May 31, 2004 ∙ 12 min
Symptom And Anxiety
What follows is the text of a talk presented at the sixth annual conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups held in Omaha...
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Mar 1, 2004 ∙ 13 min
The Parmenides And The One
I am going to talk to you about a dialogue by Plato called Parmenides because both in Seminar XIX, ...ou pire, and in the series of...
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Mar 1, 1999 ∙ 13 min
Memory And Phantasy
There is a presupposition in the term 'false memory syndrome' that there are memories that are true and memories that are false; that a...
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Mar 1, 1998 ∙ 18 min
Plato's Good For Lacan
This paper is about sex. And if it is about sex, it is about number.
In the final weeks of the Seminar entitled Crucial Problems for...
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May 31, 1997 ∙ 41 min
Reading Plato's Symposium
Lacan decided that an analysis of the Symposium of Plato in his Seminar of 1960 - 1961 would be an illuminating detour by which to...
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Mar 1, 1997 ∙ 16 min
The Sophist And The Psychoanalyst
In the Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan announces: The psychoanalyst is the presence of the sophist in our time ...'. In this...
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Sep 30, 1996 ∙ 11 min
Ella Freeman Sharpe - A Review Of Her Contribution
Ella Sharpe (1875-1947) came to psychoanalysis from a background in literature, particularly Shakespeare, and teacher training. She...
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