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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 (8)

Jun 1, 2012 ∙ 23 min

L’Étourdit: A Bilingual Presentation of The Second Turn. Chapter 4. Interpretation

These benefits even though supported by a second-saying, are nonetheless established from it, by the fact that they allow it to be...

Mar 1, 2012 ∙ 25 min

L’Étourdit: A bilingual presentation of the Second Turn. Chapter 3: Sense and Structure

Let us get moving here on the business of sense, promised earlier because of its difference to meaning. What allows us to grapple with...

Jun 1, 2011 ∙ 50 min

Psychoanalysis and the Formation of the Psychiatrist - Talk

This talk given by Lacan as a contribution to a program of lectures for trainee psychiatrists deals with the place of psychoanalysis...

Sep 30, 2010 ∙ 16 min

L'étourdit: A Bilingual Presentation of the Second Turn, Second Part: The Discourse of the Analyst

1. The psychoanalytic group is impossible (31a-32c) I have the task of clearing the way for the status of a discourse, there where ...

Mar 1, 2010 ∙ 5 min

Preface to The Awakening of Spring

In this introduction to a play by Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) which deals with the awakening of sexuality in three adolescents: Moritz...

Mar 1, 2010 ∙ 17 min

L’étourdit: First Part of the Second Turn

The notall touched on by the philosopher (25d; 469) I took pleasure in pointing out that Aristotle tends this way, curiously by providing..

Oct 1, 2009 ∙ 41 min

This essay was to have served as a preface to Philosophy in the Boudoir. It appeared in the review Critique (191, April, 1963) in the...

May 31, 2009 ∙ 32 min

“L’Etourdit”, Scilicet 4 (1973) pp. 5-52

(5, 449) In contributing to the 50th anniversary of L'hôpital Henri-Rousselle for the favour that my friends and I have received there...

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