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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 (31)
May 31, 2005 ∙ 22 min
Antigone goes beyond-the-beyond: From the 'my lady' of the ideal to the malady of the ideal
Whatever the field of work, no-one whose door is fully open to the suffering subject will be able to avoid the encounter with the full...
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Mar 1, 2004 ∙ 11 min
Desire Unto Death: Childsplay
Earlier on the week I noticed that in the course of Seminar II Lacan says the following: You can disprove Hegel but not the Song of...
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Sep 30, 2003 ∙ 23 min
My Possible Impossibility: Death In The Life Of The Obsessional
When in 1955 Freud's day-to-day record of his encounters with a young obsessional man was published for the first time as an addendum to...
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May 31, 2003 ∙ 4 min
Issue 28/29: Editorial
The present publication provides the reader with a double dose of THE LETTER, comprising issues 28 and 29. The first of these issues...
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Mar 1, 2003 ∙ 3 min
Issue 27: Editorial
As is usual, this third and final issue of the current volume brings the reader a selection of papers from those presented in the course...
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May 31, 2002 ∙ 4 min
Issue 25/26: Editorial
The present publication brings you both issue 25 and issue 26 of THE LETTER, offering the reader a selection of work from twelve authors...
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Mar 1, 2002 ∙ 3 min
Issue 24: Editorial
This issue of THE LETTER brings together a selection of papers from those presented at the 8th Annual Congress of the Association for...
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Sep 30, 2001 ∙ 4 min
Issue 23: Editorial
This issue of THE LETTER continues along the same route as our previous issue, bringing the reader a selection of papers which, although...
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May 31, 2001 ∙ 3 min
Issue 22: Editorial
Everyone who has at some time taken up a reading of Seminar XI will be familiar with the story of Choang-tsu included in it, a reference...
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Mar 1, 2001 ∙ 3 min
Issue 21: Editorial
Once again THE LETTER is delighted to be in a position to present our readers with the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the...
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May 31, 2000 ∙ 4 min
Issue 19/20: Editorial
In a slight departure from the normal run of events, this publication of THE LETTER comprises both the Summer issue and the Autumn issue...
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Mar 1, 2000 ∙ 3 min
Issue 18: Editorial
Oliver Hardy sits at the piano singing:
I love you! I love you! I love you!
You are the ideal of my dreams.
I always knew...
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Sep 30, 1999 ∙ 2 min
Issue 17: Editorial
This issue of THE LETTER opens with Cormac Gallagher's article on sexual difference in The Logic of Phantasy, Lacan's Seminar XIV held...
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May 31, 1999 ∙ 3 min
Issue 16: Editorial
This issue of the letter opens with the text of one lecture given by Charles Melman at LSB college on his most recent trip to Dublin...
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Mar 1, 1999 ∙ 3 min
Issue 15: Editorial
As usual this present issue of THE LETTER, the final issue of volume V, is given over to the proceedings of the Annual November Congress...
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Mar 1, 1999 ∙ 15 min
Elizabeth, - The Virgin Queen And The Maid
In the recently released movie version of the life of Queen Elizabeth the First, there are two scenes which when taken together can serve...
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Sep 30, 1998 ∙ 22 min
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
'What is human?' and 'What is reality?'.
It would seem, in the recent, albeit short-lived, furore caused in the field of psychiatry on...
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May 31, 1998 ∙ 18 min
Wo Steht Lacan Heute? Lacanian Psychoanalysis In Ireland
I cannot help feeling that there is much in the circumstances today that mirrors the psychoanalytic encounter proper. I come before you...
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May 31, 1998 ∙ 5 min
Issue 13: Editorial
How does one produce something new?
What is the status of the new?
In the very act of posing such questions as essential ones for...
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Mar 1, 1998 ∙ 3 min
Issue 12: Editorial
Has Psychiatry no shame? This week an eminent British journal of psychiatry published its finding on the subject of 'false memory...
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May 31, 1997 ∙ 4 min
Issue 10: Editorial
In the field of psychoanalysis, more so than in any other discipline, the tension between 'instituting' analysis and 'institutionalising...
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Mar 1, 1997 ∙ 3 min
Issue 9: Editorial
It will come as no surprise to our regular readership that this third and final issue of volume III of THE LETTER is given over to the...
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Sep 30, 1996 ∙ 4 min
Issue 8: Editorial
Perversion, Religion and Anxiety take the stage in this Autumn's issue of our journal. Late last year Dr Andre Michels journeyed from...
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May 31, 1996 ∙ 4 min
Issue 7: Editorial
Psychoanalytic theory, and in particular the innovations which the Lacanian corpus has leant to that body of work, has been taken up by a...
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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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