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Issue 71 now available

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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 (12)

May 31, 2006 ∙ 3 min

Issue 37: Editorial

This Summer issue of The Letter brings to the reader an exciting manifold of writings. We are delighted to be able to publish three...

Mar 1, 2006 ∙ 5 min

Issue 36: Editorial

We welcome the reader to the thirty-sixth issue of The Letter with the proceedings of the A.P.P.I. annual congress held on 26th November...

Mar 1, 2006 ∙ 8 min

Addicts in recovery: Re-covery in analysis?

Alcoholics' stories are narratives. They rise and fall with drama, humour and pathos. They're descriptive and emotional, they're sagas...

Sep 30, 2005 ∙ 3 min

Issue 35: Editorial

For this issue of the journal – devoted as it is to a selection of papers presented at the Joyce-Lacan Symposium held in Dublin in June...

May 31, 2005 ∙ 4 min

Issue 34: Editorial

Welcome to the Summer 2005 issue of The Letter. We have had enormous pleasure in assembling this issue which brings to the reader...

Mar 1, 2005 ∙ 4 min

Issue 33: Editorial

In the opening session of his seminar - Encore - Lacan remarks to his audience that he is always amazed about his being there again, to...

Mar 1, 2005 ∙ 19 min

To work perchance to love

To speak about love, Lacan says, is in itself an enjoyment, a jouis- sense. So we must be enjoying ourselves today! And it is indeed at...

May 31, 2004 ∙ 5 min

Issue 31/32: Editorial

With the new year upon us, we bring to you a double issue of THE LETTER comprising issues 31 and 32. This double issue marks a change in...

Mar 1, 2004 ∙ 5 min

Issue 30: Editorial

Ten years ago, the first issue of THE LETTER was published. As you begin to read this, the thirtieth issue of the journal, perhaps you...

Mar 1, 2004 ∙ 12 min

The Birth Of The Mother

When I, as a wife, a mother, a psychoanalyst question myself about the difficulties encountered in the course of my life, I find that...

Sep 30, 2002 ∙ 31 min

The Case Of The 'Falling Man': An Examination Of The Function Of Demand In Analytic Practice

You know that what we are trying to do here, namely in the difficulties, in the impasses, in the contradictions which are the fabric of...

Sep 30, 2001 ∙ 17 min

The mOther Of All Anxiety

This paper represents an attempt to unpack some of the key elements in Lacan's seminar on Anxiety in the context of three clinical...

THE LETTER ARCHIVE

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Recent Articles

Editorial Issue 70

Editorial 2021 brought us the continued challenge of working within Covid restrictions and I’m pleased to say that despite these...

Nocturnal Whispers

While acknowledging that the inevitable encounter with language is the traumatic encounter par excellence that structures subjectivity, this

Sick, Dying, Dead, and Buried…Rotten and Forgotten

This paper explores Lacan’s concept of the second death and its significance for an ethics of psychoanalysis.

Carol Owens

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