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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 (17)
Mar 1, 2018 ∙ 13 min
Aliens, This Way Please
This paper aims to consider the four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, as outlined by Jacques Lacan in Seminar XI...
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Jun 1, 2017 ∙ 8 min
And Yet...
Martin Heidegger was no friend of psychoanalysis. His first serious exposure to it came through the ministrations of Medard Boss, who...
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May 31, 2017 ∙ 2 min
Issue 65: Editorial
I am delighted to have been asked to write the editorial for this special tribute to Bill Richardson S.J....
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Mar 1, 2017 ∙ 11 min
Searching for the Lost Cause. Freud’s First Steps– (Towards a Theory of Anxiety)
This paper follows Freud’s first tentative steps towards his understanding of the origins of anxiety. It will deal in particular with...
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Mar 1, 2016 ∙ 11 min
Sitting There Saying Nothing. What is Involved in the Psychoanalytic Act?
This paper explores what is at stake when speaking about the Psychoanalytic Act - this with reference to Lacan’s ‘67-’68 seminar of the...
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Oct 1, 2011 ∙ 19 min
Psychoanalysis Without Tears?
This paper deals with the question of the difference between didactic analysis and the formation of the analyst. It is based on a reading...
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Mar 1, 2010 ∙ 10 min
“You’re not going out like that, are you?”
This paper situates Frank Wedekind’s play, Spring Awakening, in a Freudian-Lacanian framework. The masked man who makes his appearance...
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Mar 1, 2009 ∙ 15 min
From Gleann na nGealt to Schizophrenia: A Structure of Refusal?
This paper examines some aspects of the history of mental illness in Ireland from a Freudian perspective. It draws on the work of Joseph...
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Sep 30, 2006 ∙ 12 min
Sigmund Freud: The Time For Understanding
On September 2nd 1901 when Sigmund Freud was forty-five years old he at last found himself in Rome, something which had the highest...
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Sep 30, 2005 ∙ 8 min
A disturbance of memory at Dublin Castle
The minimum pact demanded by the Symbolic Order so that one human being is able to recognise another like himself and thereby suppose an...
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Mar 1, 2003 ∙ 10 min
Of Course I'm Not A Racist ... But
On the 3rd December 1969 Lacan was questioned by a member of a rather rowdy audience of over 800 people at the University of Vincennes...
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Sep 30, 1998 ∙ 25 min
The Follower
As the President of the United States of America William Jefferson Clinton signed the new Electronics Treaty at Gateway Computers in...
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Sep 30, 1996 ∙ 13 min
Anxiety: Preserving The Objet A
Lacan makes it clear in his Seminar on Anxiety that anxiety is a phenomenon, that it has an object and moreover there seems to be a...
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Mar 1, 1996 ∙ 11 min
The Concept of Anxiety within an Object Relations Perspective
In a paper submitted to the British Journal of Medical Psychology in 1943, Ronald Fairbairn, the Edinburgh based psychoanalyst wrote...
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Sep 30, 1995 ∙ 26 min
The Pére-Visions of Dubliners
Lacan tells us in The Formations of the Unconscious (1957-58) that Freud, in his search for the Symbolic Origin and the Real Origin of...
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May 31, 1995 ∙ 3 min
Issue 4: Editorial
Psychoanalysis bears witness to the unhappy reality that underpinning the subject of knowledge is a radical yearning for ignorance. Who...
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May 31, 1994 ∙ 6 min
The Jouissance of the Mystic
If, as Lacan says in his Seminar of 1972, Encore, to understand any discourse whatsoever we have to begin with the enunciation that there...
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The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis was first launched in 1994. The Letter Archive is home to hundreds of articles, making it easy to research Lacanian psychoanalysis, at a time that suits you from any device. Annual subscribers have access to the complete back catalogue of the journal.
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