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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 (36)
Sep 27, 2024 ∙ 22 min
BEING PULLED HITHER AND THITHER
When it comes to the real, sublimation - a more sublime, more socially valued form of symptom – remains a symptom nonetheless. ‘If my devils
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Mar 1, 2017 ∙ 14 min
On Anxiety and its Symptom(s)
Taking Freud’s 1926 paper Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety as a major reference, Lacan teases out the distinctions between these three...
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Oct 1, 2016 ∙ 17 min
Looking back at On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance with L’Étourdit in Mind
Discourse and semblance are important terms to understand in order to make sense of L’Étourdit. My wager is that all that is re-presented...
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Sep 30, 2016 ∙ 8 min
Issue 63: Editorial
Issue 63 opens with another remarkable chapter – this time the concluding chapter - of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse: A...
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May 31, 2016 ∙ 9 min
Issue 62: Editorial
We open issue 62 of The Letter with The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse the fifth chapter of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic...
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Mar 1, 2016 ∙ 8 min
Issue 61: Editorial
We continue our undertaking to publish over six issues back to back, the full text of Christian Fierens’ Second Reading of Lacan’s...
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Sep 30, 2015 ∙ 7 min
Issue 59/60: Editorial
We have two objectives in mind in bringing you this double issue of The Letter. The first is to continue the chapter by chapter...
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Mar 1, 2015 ∙ 6 min
Issue 58: Editorial
With Issue 58 we keep our commitment to bring you the next instalment of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second...
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Sep 30, 2014 ∙ 5 min
Issue 57: Editorial
Readers of The Letter will be aware that, over the past few years, we have been engaged in bringing Lacan's L'Etourdit, his great final...
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May 31, 2014 ∙ 21 min
The Psychoanalytic Discourse Allows a Different Kind of Therapeutic Engagement in Psychosis
For the psychiatrist, negative symptoms are viewed as a sign of mental illness marked by a symbolic deficit. Symbolic deficit flags the...
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May 31, 2014 ∙ 5 min
Issue 55/56: Editorial
This double issue of The Letter sees the publication of the proceedings of the conference Treatment Challenges in Psychosis: Voices of
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Sep 30, 2013 ∙ 7 min
Issue 54: Editorial
The publication of Cormac Gallagher's translation of Guy Le Gaufey's acclaimed book Lacan's Notall: Logical Consistency, Clinical...
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May 31, 2013 ∙ 5 min
Issue 53: Editorial
I am very pleased to include the final two sections of Christian Fierens’ book Lecture de L’Etourdit in this issue of The Letter. These...
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Mar 1, 2013 ∙ 29 min
The Big Other, Its Paradox And The Ruse Of Knowledge
The fact of repression is that a thought or knowledge solution is launched. Freud’s hysterics showed him that they suffered from...
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Mar 1, 2013 ∙ 4 min
Issue 52: Editorial
With Issue 52 of The Letter, Tony Hughes has decided to hand over the role of Editor, a step that he takes reluctantly for health...
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Mar 1, 2011 ∙ 18 min
Evidence–based practice and psychoanalysis: thought disorder and the dream
Post-modernism, quantum theory, psychoanalysis-buzz words of the twentieth century likely to be misunderstood by the non-specialist – are...
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Mar 1, 2011 ∙ 4 min
Issue 46: Editorial
Our Study Day this Spring became the second such occasion when a dialogue took place at St Vincent's University Hospital between...
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May 31, 2010 ∙ 17 min
What is an Author? A Question for the Cartels
After a year‟s experience of being part of one of ISLP‟s cartels, the question of authorship emerged, not in the sense of plagiarism or...
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May 31, 2009 ∙ 21 min
The Vas Difference. On Traversing the First Loop of L’Etourdit...
This article suggests that in L'Etourdit, the neologism “Vas” has a resonance for Lacan which returns us to the vase of the optical...
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Sep 30, 2008 ∙ 26 min
In Praise of Incompleteness
In Todd Haynes 2007 movie on the life of Bob Dylan I’m Not There, one of the many Dylan semblances states ‘I’m not there but the song...
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Sep 30, 2006 ∙ 12 min
A Question of research for psychoanalysis, the health service and the university
I am not in a position to address my original topic The state of the transference today at The Freud 150 event because of a change of...
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Mar 1, 2006 ∙ 16 min
Psychoanalysis is the Knowledge of the Rules of the Game of Love
Good, so then I am entering into the core of the subject. This is how Lacan opens the Ninth session of Seminar XXI - Les non-dupes...
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Sep 30, 2005 ∙ 8 min
Questions about the Familiar in the Ithaca Episode of Ulysses
Copulation matters to the psychoanalyst! The copulation we have in mind - to use Lacan's provocative take on this very particular word...
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Mar 1, 2005 ∙ 17 min
A Commentary on Lacan's Hainamoration
In keeping with the title of this year's congress - On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge, I am launching my own...
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