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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 (22)
Mar 1, 2017 ∙ 15 min
What can be done with Anxiety? Enjoyment and Acting
There are two different answers to the question ‘What can be done with anxiety’? depending on two different conceptions of...
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Oct 1, 2016 ∙ 53 min
Chapter 6: The Structure of the Psychoanalytic Discourse, is Interpretation
The psychoanalytic discourse has no stuff, no consistency outside the established discourses. What is neither an hysterical discourse...
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Jun 1, 2016 ∙ 21 min
Chapter 5: The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading
Each discourse brings into play a social bond without which it would not be a discourse.
What social bond for the psychoanalytic...
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Mar 1, 2016 ∙ 27 min
Chapter 4: The Stuff of the Psychoanalytic Discourse and its Cut. The Psychoanalytic Discourse.
The philosopher can say the truth. He can speak about everything on condition of taking into account that he is speaking about it...
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Oct 1, 2015 ∙ 52 min
Chapter 3: The Logics of Sexuation. The Psychoanalytic Discourse.
For classical logic, the real is approached in the order of truth: in principle it would be a matter of finding, of producing, of...
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Mar 1, 2015 ∙ 39 min
Chapter 2: The Impossibility of the Psychoanalytic Discourse The Psychoanalytic Discourse.
Over against the approach of witnessing which transforms the supposedly established act of saying into the statement of a said and heard...
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Oct 1, 2014 ∙ 32 min
Presentation, Introduction and Chapter 1: The Roles of the Analyst. The Psychoanalytic Discourse.
Discourse creates a social bond. How express (dire) the social bond specific to psychoanalysis? Must we base ourselves on the persons...
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May 31, 2014 ∙ 14 min
The Real of Lacan in the Treatment of Psychosis
The concept of lack in Lacanian theory leads to the Lacanian Real. How can the Real take the place of a conception of psychosis as a lack...
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Jun 1, 2013 ∙ 58 min
Reading L’Etourdit: First Turn: Chapter 4. The Phallic Function and the Formulae of Sexuation
(111) Let us take phallic functioning up again starting from the Oedipus complex summarised in the first two formulae of the phallic...
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Jun 1, 2013 ∙ 9 min
From One Turn to the Other
(161) The starting point of psychoanalytic logic is the Heteros, the ‘notall’. If Plato’s Parmenides opens out onto the Heteros, we must...
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Mar 1, 2013 ∙ 39 min
Reading L’Étourdit: First Turn Chapter 3: There Is No Sexual Relationship
(79) Chapter 1 was centred on the said as it operates in the master and academic discourses. Chapter 2 demonstrated saying in the...
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Oct 1, 2012 ∙ 30 min
Reading L’Étourdit: First Turn : Chapter 1. Meaning – Relationship and Sense
(25) Here are two morsels of the psychoanalytic discourse (…ou pire):
(1) ‘That one might be saying remains forgotten behind the said...
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Oct 1, 2012 ∙ 33 min
Reading L’Étourdit. First Turn. Chapter 2. Freud’s Saying
(51) The signifier (S1) represents the subject ($) for another signifier (S2). In the master discourse the signifier, taken as a...
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Jun 1, 2012 ∙ 36 min
Reading L’Étourdit. Second Turn. Chapter 4 Interpretation
(267) Structure ana-lyses the neurotic torus, by re-ascending towards the cross-cap that makes it possible. It dismantles the torus...
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Mar 1, 2012 ∙ 43 min
Reading L’Étourdit. Second Turn. Chapter 3: Sense and Structure
We forsake meaning in order to advance into sense. Castration no longer has the Freudian meaning but the sense which aims at the cut. The...
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Jun 1, 2011 ∙ 13 min
The Tool of Diagnosis and Operation of The Matheme
This is the unedited text of a talk, given to the ―Matinées de psychothérapie institutionnell, at Facultés Universitaires de Saint...
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Sep 30, 2010 ∙ 29 min
Reading L'étourdit: The Second Turn.Chapter 2: The Discourse of the Analyst.
This continuation of Christian Fieren‟s 2002 book, Lecture de L'étourdit. Lacan 1972. (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002), is translated here into...
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Apr 1, 2010 ∙ 37 min
Reading L’Étourdit: The Second Turn
Lacan’s L'étourdit eschews diagrams and other imaginary supports but refers to the “already articulated” developments of his earlier...
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Jun 30, 2009 ∙ 13 min
Reading L’Etourdit
The following is an extract from Christian Fierens' 2002 book, Lecture de L'Etourdit. Lacan 1972 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002), translated...
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May 31, 2009 ∙ 7 min
Response to Tom Dalzell
Christian Fierens argues in this paper against understanding Lacan's exception as a transcendental reality and, preferring L'Etourdit's...
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Mar 1, 2009 ∙ 12 min
Foreclosure and Discordance: Is Schizophrenia Thinkable?
This article argues that schizophrenia, as the illness of the psychical system in its generality, can only be approached by posing the...
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Sep 30, 2008 ∙ 27 min
The act of saying Notall with reference to Le Gaufey's Work.
Christian Fierens pays Guy Le Gaufey the tribute of critically reading Notall in a positive way. As author of Lecture de L’Étourdit, he...
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