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Browse our selection of articles related to Psychiatry and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Since 1994, The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis has been a vital resource for those with an interest in the field of Freudian-Lacnian psychoanalysis. In that time, The Letter has published nearly 500 articles by both international and Irish authors, and the archive stands as a testament to the work carried out by researchers, practitioners and students of psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Explore articles related to this keyword What is Anxiety Issue 64 What do Psychiatrists Mean by Anxiety? Issue 64 Issue 64: Editorial Issue 64 Issue 57: Editorial Issue 57 Rethinking the Drug Treatment of Psychosis Issue 55/56 The Psychoanalytic Discourse Allows a Different Kind of Therapeutic Engagement in Psychosis Issue 55/56 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Guidelines in Psychosis Issue 55/56 A Discourse for the Birds: An Adaptive Psychoanalytic Journey within the Public Psychiatric Service Issue 55/56 Issue 55/56: Editorial Issue 55/56 Rethinking Psychosis in the 21st Century: Brief Reflections from the Front Line Issue 55/56 Issue 51: Editorial Issue 51 What Freud Learned in Theodor Meynert's Clinic Issue 49 1 2 3 4 Back to archive

We are committed to the publication of work that engages seriously with the discourse launched by Sigmund Freud and developed by Jacques Lacan. Take your research further and explore this selection of our free-to-read articles. Authors A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Jean Allouch Gérard Amiel Hugh Arthurs B Lionel Bailly Terry Ball Miquel Bassols Yves Pierre Baumstimler Itzhak Benyamini Richard Boothby Paul Bothorel Malcolm Bowie Glenn Brady Nessa Breen Denise Brett Dirk Bryssinck Daniel Burston Peter Byrne Daniel C. Bristow C Aisling Campbell Mary Cannon Sandra Carroll Gustavo Cetlin Franck Chaumon Mary Cheyrou-Lagrèze Colette Chouraqui-Sepel Sarah Clarke David Cluxton Helena Comiskey Joanne Conway Stephen J. Costello Olga Cox Mary Cullen Hugh Cummins Nellie Curtin Marcel Czermak D Martin J. Daly Clare Daly Tom Dalzell Mary Darby Marc Darmon Tom De Belie Ann De Rick Marion Deane Frédéric Declercq Donat Desmond Philip Dodd Colman Duggan Claude Dumezil E Monica Errity F Christian Fierens John Forrester Joanna Fortune Olivia Fox William Fried See more

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This double issue of The Letter represents the proceedings of the conference entitled 'Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?' held on the 9th December 2017 in Marino Institute, Dublin. The conference was hosted by the Dublin psychoanalytic study group New Studies on Hysteria in collaboration with the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Psychopathologies, Paris. Issue 66/67 This double issue of The Letter represents the proceedings of the conference entitled 'Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?' held on the 9th December 2017 in Marino Institute, Dublin . The conference was hosted by the Dublin psychoanalytic study group New Studies on Hysteria in collaboration with the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Psychopathologies, Paris . An Intolerable Rejection Issue 66/67 We See in Hysteria Something which is a Defence against Dissatisfaction Issue 66/67 Being a Stranger to Oneself Issue 66/67 Aliens, This Way Please Issue 66/67 What Freud Allowed the Hysteric to Teach him Issue 66/67 Post Hoc Exsilium Ostende Issue 66/67 Reconstructing Reminiscences Issue 66/67 Why Was Psychoanalysis Founded by an Emigrant? Issue 66/67 Freud’s Interest in the Origins of Humanity as Reflected in his Theory of Psychoanalysis Issue 66/67 Moving Away from the Familiar Issue 66/67 A Foreign Tongue Issue 66/67 Issue 66/67: Editorial Issue 66/67 Back to archive

Browse our selection of articles related to Language and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Since 1994, The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis has been a vital resource for those with an interest in the field of Freudian-Lacnian psychoanalysis. In that time, The Letter has published nearly 500 articles by both international and Irish authors, and the archive stands as a testament to the work carried out by researchers, practitioners and students of psychoanalysis. Language Explore articles related to this keyword Post Hoc Exsilium Ostende Issue 66/67 A Foreign Tongue Issue 66/67 Issue 66/67: Editorial Issue 66/67 Truth and Freedom in Psychoanalysis Issue 65 And Yet... Issue 65 Narrative Imagination and Catharsis Issue 65 Issue 62: Editorial Issue 62 Terms and Conditions: ‘Psychosis’ and Psychoanalytic Treatment Issue 55/56 Can I Say Who I Am Issue 54 Issue 54: Editorial Issue 54 Issue 52: Editorial Editorials Some Serious Recreation Issue 51 1 2 3 4 Back to archive

Browse our selection of articles related to Sigmund Freud and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Since 1994, The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis has been a vital resource for those with an interest in the field of Freudian-Lacnian psychoanalysis. In that time, The Letter has published nearly 500 articles by both international and Irish authors, and the archive stands as a testament to the work carried out by researchers, practitioners and students of psychoanalysis. Freud Explore articles related to this keyword ARISTOTLE’S AND BENTHAM’S MORAL PHILOSOPHIES IN LACAN’S ETHICS SEMINAR Issue 69 Aliens, This Way Please Issue 66/67 Reconstructing Reminiscences Issue 66/67 Why Was Psychoanalysis Founded by an Emigrant? Issue 66/67 Freud’s Interest in the Origins of Humanity as Reflected in his Theory of Psychoanalysis Issue 66/67 Moving Away from the Familiar Issue 66/67 A Foreign Tongue Issue 66/67 Issue 66/67: Editorial Issue 66/67 Truth and Freedom in Psychoanalysis Issue 65 A Stranger To Myself Issue 65 Pre-Phobic Anxiety Issue 64 Issue 64: Editorial Issue 64 1 2 3 4 5 Back to archive

Browse our selection of articles related to Hysteria and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Since 1994, The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis has been a vital resource for those with an interest in the field of Freudian-Lacnian psychoanalysis. In that time, The Letter has published nearly 500 articles by both international and Irish authors, and the archive stands as a testament to the work carried out by researchers, practitioners and students of psychoanalysis. Hysteria Explore articles related to this keyword An Intolerable Rejection Issue 66/67 We See in Hysteria Something which is a Defence against Dissatisfaction Issue 66/67 Aliens, This Way Please Issue 66/67 What Freud Allowed the Hysteric to Teach him Issue 66/67 Reconstructing Reminiscences Issue 66/67 Why Was Psychoanalysis Founded by an Emigrant? Issue 66/67 Freud’s Interest in the Origins of Humanity as Reflected in his Theory of Psychoanalysis Issue 66/67 Moving Away from the Familiar Issue 66/67 Issue 66/67: Editorial Issue 66/67 Issue 64: Editorial Issue 64 The Appeal Of Psychoanalysis Issue 50 In What Ways Does Psychoanalysis Differ From Psychotherapy? Issue 50 1 2 3 4 Back to archive

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This issue opens with The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse the fifth chapter of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading of L’Etourdit (2012) translated by Cormac Gallagher. Fierens remind us of Lacan’s optimism that the psychoanalytic discourse will conquer – an optimism based not on the social but ‘on the impossible in the structure itself. For it is the impossible in all its forms that sustains the discourse from which there is created the new social bond.’ Issue 62 We open Issue 62 of The Letter with The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse the fifth chapter of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading of L’Etourdit (2012) translated by Cormac Gallagher in 2014. Fierens remind us of Lacan’s optimism that the psychoanalytic discourse will conquer – an optimism based not on the social but ‘on the impossible in the structure itself. For it is the impossible in all its forms that sustains the discourse from which there is created the new social bond.’ Chapter 5: The Sense of the Psychoanalytic Discourse The Psychoanalytic Discourse. A Second Reading Issue 62 A Commentary on the Twelfth Session of Lacan’s XXIVth Seminar: L’Insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile Issue 62 Calliope’s Sc(D)ream: Feminine Jouissance in Aristotle’s Works on Language Issue 62 Lacan and Philosophy. A Commentary Issue 62 An Approach to Lacan’s XXVIth Seminar Topology and Time Issue 62 Issue 62: Editorial Issue 62 Back to archive

With an annual subscription, you can read any of our journal articles online; allowing you to explore the history, theory and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis anytime, anywhere using your desktop, tablet or phone. Subscription rates are available for individuals, students and institutions, based in Ireland and abroad. Annual Subscription The Letter Archive is an essential resource for those interested in the field of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. To access the complete archive of the journal , you must have an Annual Subscription . Choose your subscription to The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis Student € 30 30€ The Letter Archive Valid for one year Select Exclusive rate for Students: ✓ Unlimited online access ✓ Read 500+ articles Individual € 80 80€ The Letter Archive Valid for one year Select Individual Rate: ✓ Unlimited online access ✓ Read 500+ articles All Access € 100 100€ The Letter Archive Valid for one year Select All Access Rate for Individuals: ✓ Unlimited online access ✓ Read 500+ articles ✓ Receive 1 print issue of the journal with new material Institution Access The Letter Archive is home to over 60 Issues of the journal focusing on Lacanian Psychoanalysis. We are committed to keeping our work accessible to the academic community. For relevant institutions, we have an exclusive subscription rate available for €500 per year. Please contact us directly for more information. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Download Recent issues Issue 66/67 - Autumn 2017/Spring 2018 Issue 65 - Summer 2017 Issue 64 - Spring 2017 Issue 63 - Autumn 2016 Issue 62 - Summer 2016 See more

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Since the launch of The Letter in 1994, the journal has been publishing work from both the Irish Lacanian field and international contributors. The journal is committed to the publication of work that engages seriously with the discourse launched by Sigmund Freud and developed by Jacques Lacan. Our History 1994 The Letter was launched in 1994 and since then has been publishing work from the Irish Lacanian field and from international contributors. The journal is committed to the publication of work that engages seriously with the discourse launched by Sigmund Freud and developed by Jacques Lacan. 2007 Since 2007, as well as including contributions from others in Ireland and abroad, The Letter has carried psychoanalytic work from the Inter-cartel Study-days of the Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis. ISLP is set up on the basis of the proposal for a psychoanalytic School in Lacan’s 1964 Founding Act where he wrote: ’... a work is to be accomplished – which, in the field Freud has opened up, restores the cutting ploughshare of its truth – which brings the original praxis that he instituted under the name of psychoanalysis back to the duty that that is incumbent on it in our world – which, by an assiduous criticism, exposes the deviations and compromises that deaden its progress by degrading its use.’ These words inspire the work of The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis. What Freud said in his interview on BBC radio in 1938 still rings true: ‘ ... the struggle is not yet over.' 2008 In 2008, with Issue 39, the journal’s title was changed from The Letter Perspectives on Lacanian Psychoanalysis to The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in response to developments in Lacanian psychoanalysis in Ireland. At that time Cormac Gallagher (echoing the title of the first paper in the first issue of The Letter which made use of the famous proposal of Padraig Pearse - ‘Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam - an Irish stew?’) posed the question for our future: “An feidir cúis Freud agus Lacan a dheilt ó chúis an Phiarsaigh?” The Letter takes up this challenge and endeavours to contribute to this turn, this forming, or tour, as the French has it: attending to l’étourdit ... 2023 A selection of articles from the archive are now available free to access . If a visitor to the site is interested in accessing more than this, they can take out an annual subscription . Institutional subscription is €500. There is also a student subscription rate available. Every subscription includes access to the entire archive . Subscriptions support the maintenance of the archive, running costs and the print run of a limited print version. The Letter is a non-profit entity. We value your continuing interest and support. It is a crucial contribution to the Lacanian field in Ireland The Editorial Board

THE LETTER Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis is owned by the School of Psychotherapy at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. The journal is committed to the publication of work that engages seriously with the discourse launched by Sigmund Freud and developed by Jacques Lacan. It publishes the work of members of the Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, founded by Cormac Gallagher. Contact For general queries, information on becoming a contributor or ordering a hard copy of The Letter journal, please contact us using the details below. The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis , The School of Psychotherapy, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4. Ireland. liam.barnard@tsop.ie First Name Last Name Email Message Thanks for submitting! Send

This Issue of The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis opens with another remarkable chapter – this time the concluding chapter - of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse: A Second Reading of Lacan’s L’Étourdit (2012). It is accompanied by a sort of coda - Perspectives for the Psychoanalytic Discourse - referencing the laughter provoked by the witticism. The issue also contains seven papers from the proceedings of our ISLP Inter-Carter Study Day in June 2016.  Issue 63 This Issue of The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis opens with another remarkable chapter – this time the concluding chapter - of Christian Fierens’ The Psychoanalytic Discourse: A Second Reading of Lacan’s L’Étourdit (2012). It is accompanied by a sort of coda - Perspectives for the Psychoanalytic Discourse - referencing the laughter provoked by the witticism. The issue also contains seven papers from the proceedings of our ISLP Inter-Carter Study Day in June 2016. Chapter 6: The Structure of the Psychoanalytic Discourse, is Interpretation Issue 63 Narcissism: Is that all Psychoanalysis Is? Issue 63 From Königsberg to Cartel Issue 63 Is Topology Meaningless? Yes and No Issue 63 Looking back at On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance with L’Étourdit in Mind Issue 63 A Perfect Construction Issue 63 The Narcissistic Ego: Functions and Fallacies Issue 63 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Issue 63 Issue 63: Editorial Issue 63 Back to archive

Browse our selection of articles related to James Joyce and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Since 1994, The Letter Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis has been a vital resource for those with an interest in the field of Freudian-Lacnian psychoanalysis. In that time, The Letter has published nearly 500 articles by both international and Irish authors, and the archive stands as a testament to the work carried out by researchers, practitioners and students of psychoanalysis. James Joyce Explore articles related to this keyword Narrative Imagination and Catharsis Issue 65 Issue 64: Editorial Issue 64 Seminars XVII and XVIII with XXIII: On a University Discourse that might not be Joycean Issue 61 Issue 61: Editorial Issue 61 CMJOYCIRENSFW The Writersinger Issue 54 Issue 54: Editorial Issue 54 Issue 52: Editorial Editorials From the Lacan-Joyce Correspondence Issue 37 The Writing of Joyce Issue 37 Joyce's Nora Issue 37 Issue 37: Editorial Issue 37 The Lost Subject Issue 35 1 2 3 Back to archive

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