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Oct 1, 2015 ∙ 18 min
Lacan’s Use of Topology – A Chronology: Part 1
Lacan’s use of topology seems to have begun with the Rome Discourse in September 1953. From that time on until the end of his life he...
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Jun 1, 2013 ∙ 38 min
The Klein bottle
Some arguments about Lacan’s use of topology are explored in the light of the debate as to whether or not it adds anything beneficial to...
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May 31, 2012 ∙ 3 min
Issue 50: Editorial
We publish the final part of Cormac Gallagher’s translation of Lacan’s L’étourdit - the Second Turn, Chapter 4 – Interpretation. Herein...
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Mar 1, 2012 ∙ 3 min
Issue 49: Editorial
This issue contains the Second Turn of L’Etourdit, Chapter Three: Sense and Structure, consisting of the four sections, (i) Sense and...
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Sep 30, 2011 ∙ 2 min
Issue 48: Editorial
Melman raises the age-old question - who authorises us? He links this to the lack of difference between inside and outside which is...
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May 31, 2011 ∙ 3 min
Issue 47: Editorial
Jacques Lacan‘s talk on 10 November 1967 given to psychiatrists, translated by Cormac Gallagher, deals with the formation of...
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Oct 1, 2010 ∙ 19 min
Freud’s Group, Lacan’s Cartel and The Toric Organisation
Lacan put the work of the cartels at the core of the transformation of the analyst. His design follows Freud‟s model of hierarchical...
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Sep 30, 2010 ∙ 4 min
Issue 45: Editorial
We continue with Cormac Gallagher's translation of Lacan's L'Étourdit. The First Turn: the signifier and the absence of sexual...
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May 31, 2010 ∙ 3 min
Issue 44: Editorial
It is worthy of note that in this issue of The Letter all the articles have been the outcome of work in the cartels of the ISLP, thereby...
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Mar 1, 2010 ∙ 28 min
The Torus – An Introduction
Lacan used topology to theorise in a scientific way the structure of the subject. The topological field is a central part of his thinking...
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Sep 30, 2009 ∙ 59 min
Kant with Sade: A Scholion
This scholion accompanies Lacan’s 1962 text in which he brings together of two very unlikely accomplices, Kant and Sade, and thereby...
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May 31, 2009 ∙ 21 min
Saying, the Said, Signification and Meaning in L’Etourdit
One of the levels of complexity which is found in L'Etourdit arises because Lacan distinguishes between “what is said”, “what is heard”...
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Mar 1, 1999 ∙ 8 min
Exchange-Value And Use In Psychoanalysis
One of the topics dealt with in the seminar on the Logic of Phantasy concerns the question as to whether or not, at the level of the...
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Mar 1, 1997 ∙ 10 min
The Rapture Of Lol V. Stein
The Rapture of Lol V. Stein was written by Marguerite Duras in 1964. Lacan wrote a short commentary on the text in December 1965 - the...
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THE LETTER ARCHIVE
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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