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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 (35)
Jun 1, 2017 ∙ 14 min
A Stranger To Myself
The need for Ignatian Spirituality to engage with Freudian psychoanalysis. Keywords: Ignatian Exercises; Id quod volo; Freud; Lacan...
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May 31, 2014 ∙ 13 min
‘Blessed are the Pacemakers’: Dementia, Psychosis and The Psychoanalytic Discourse
Dementia has been described as the major mental health epidemic of the 21st century. Yet far from being the living death it was seen as...
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Sep 30, 2012 ∙ 5 min
Issue 51: Editorial
This 51st issue of the The Letter was put together by editor Tony Hughes who is currently ill and continues the project begun in issue 41...
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Jun 1, 2011 ∙ 30 min
What Can We Learn From Freud's Critique of Religion?
This paper was given at the conference in All Hallows on 10 June 2011. It deals with the influences on Freud‘s often neglected religious...
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Mar 1, 2011 ∙ 21 min
Psychological Object or Speaking Subject: from Diagnosis to Case Re-presentation
There is a common view that there are two irreconcilable approaches to the understanding and treatment of mental illness. For most of...
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Jun 1, 2010 ∙ 40 min
The Founding Act, the Cartel and the Riddle of the PLUS ONE
In his Founding Act (1964) Jacques Lacan established a School organised around small working groups tasked with enabling each individual...
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Sep 30, 2009 ∙ 24 min
The Patient as Actor: Notall in the Case Presentation
While the case presentation from Emil Kraepelin onwards has tended to obectify and medicalise the psychiatric patient, this paper argues...
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May 31, 2009 ∙ 20 min
Laytour, Latetour, L'Etourdit
This paper introduces L'Etourdit by first examining the places where Lacan taught – St. Anne, ENS, Sorbonne – as important places for him...
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Mar 1, 2009 ∙ 3 min
Issue 40: Editorial
For ten weeks, from late November 2008 to late January 2009, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers remained at number one in the New York Times...
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Sep 30, 2008 ∙ 12 min
Introduction to Guy Le Gaufey's Article on Sexuation
The author discusses his difficulties in translating Guy Le Gaufey’s article "Towards a Critical Reading of the Formulae of Sexuation”...
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Sep 30, 2006 ∙ 10 min
From Freud's Mythology of Sexuality to Lacan's Formulae of Sexuation
Given that this day is meant to be a celebration of Freud's one hundred and fiftieth birthday and that many non-specialists as well as...
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Mar 1, 2006 ∙ 21 min
Lacan's Viator and The Time Traveller's Wife
When I was asked two months ago for a title for this paper I was still reading what is called an international best-seller that I had...
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Sep 30, 2005 ∙ 16 min
Nets to Knots: The Odyssey to a Beyond of Barbarism
I was thinking of welcoming you in Irish but I was persuaded that the translation service already had enough to cope with, so I will get...
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Mar 1, 2005 ∙ 24 min
Re-Englishing Encore
I cannot help being struck at the contrast between the Congress that we are participating in today and the 3T's Conference on the...
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Mar 1, 2004 ∙ 18 min
Where was Jacques Lacan in 1971-72? ... Ou Pire and the Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst
In a recent review of an exhaustive study on The Smiths - a 1970's band - the writer remarks: "This is not a book for anoraks - it's a...
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Mar 1, 2003 ∙ 30 min
On A Discourse That Might Not Be A Semblance: Book XVIII (1971): A Collage
The aim of this paper is modest. It is to stitch together with minimal commentary a selection of the sometimes clear, sometimes obscure...
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Mar 1, 2002 ∙ 23 min
The New Tyranny of Knowledge: Seminar XVII (1969-70) - Background and Overview
Almost halfway through the year, Lacan makes a caustic reference to the just published 50 anniversary issue of the International Journal...
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Sep 30, 2001 ∙ 22 min
What Does Jacques Lacan See In Blaise Pascal?
Putting the title in this way is meant to reflect two things. First, that Jacques Lacan is unequivocal in his assertion that the work of...
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May 31, 2001 ∙ 9 min
2001 International Symposium on Psychoanalytic Research
This brief report is intended as a record of a quite unusual psychoanalytic meeting, which took place recently in a country that has had...
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Mar 1, 2001 ∙ 29 min
From an other to the other: an overview
Despite its 700 pages of typescript and the fact that it was delivered at yet another major turning point in Lacan s teaching career...
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Sep 30, 2000 ∙ 29 min
On First Looking Into Foucault's 'History'
In 1998, a note promoting the forthcoming Colloquium on L'Opacite Sexuelle in the Ecole Lacanienne de Paris announced, almost as if it...
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Mar 1, 2000 ∙ 14 min
Overview Of The Psychoanalytic Act
This, Lacan's own, summary of the seminar on The Psychoanalytic Act, written for the yearbook of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes...
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Mar 1, 2000 ∙ 23 min
A Reading of The Psychoanalytic Act 1 (1967-1968)
Our chronological working-through of Jacques Lacan's seminars brought us this year to his 'meditation' on the psychoanalytic act...
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Sep 30, 1999 ∙ 24 min
Sexual Difference In The Logic Of Phantasy
Making sense of the Lacanian clinic I hope that the title of this paper will have lowered any expectations that it will be a...
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