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Mar 1, 2018 ∙ 10 min
Why Was Psychoanalysis Founded by an Emigrant?
This paper addresses the question ‘Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?’ It draws parallels between Freud’s position in relation..
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Mar 1, 2017 ∙ 10 min
Why Am I Anxious?
With his opening question ‘Why am I anxious?’ Dr Charles Melman is addressing the psychoanalyst who, in the face of the hole in the big...
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Oct 1, 2011 ∙ 11 min
Inside and Outside in the Case of President Schreber
Are our thoughts and actions governed by innate ideas, as Plato would have it, or by the experience of reality mediated by our senses...
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May 31, 2009 ∙ 14 min
What Thrilled Me in Fierens’ Book
The following paper, translated into English by Cormac Gallagher, was read by Charles Melman during a two-day conference in 2003 on the...
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Mar 1, 2009 ∙ 13 min
Schreber’s Lack of Lack
This paper deals with the problematic relation in psychosis to what Lacan calls “the big Other”. Referring to contemporary clinical...
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Mar 1, 2006 ∙ 10 min
George Best and the names of the father
Excuse me for speaking in French, but I think it will be easier on your ears! When I arrived at Dublin airport, in the taxi the driver...
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May 31, 2002 ∙ 23 min
Returning to Schreber: 5th December 1994
Giving a commentary on this formula of Lacan according to which 'the unconscious is the social , implies accepting at first a curious...
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May 31, 1999 ∙ 11 min
Addiction
I am going to tell you things, both classical and original, having consequences for the treatment of addicts. As you know, neither Freud...
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Sep 30, 1998 ∙ 19 min
Lecture Raisonnée Et Critique Des Oeuvres De Freud Et De Lacan
Certains d'entre vous ont peut-être eu connaissance d'un document que je vous ai apporté ce soir, parce que je trouve ces phénomènes...
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Sep 30, 1995 ∙ 22 min
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Cormac Gallagher: I am delighted once again to welcome Dr Charles Melman into our midst. I don't think it is any exaggeration to say...
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May 31, 1994 ∙ 18 min
Paranoia
Paranoia is above all linked to our representation of space, because spontaneously our representation of space is Euclidean, which has...
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