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Volume Five:
Letters of the Freudian School of Melbourne
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Editorial
Tine Norregaard-Arroyo, Sarah Jones
This year the editorial committee has engaged in the work of a cartel addressing questions around the position of the father in psychoanalysis...
Joyce-Lacan Symposium: Here Comes Everybody
Conference
In 1975 on Bloomsday, the day in 1904 on which Joyce’s novel Ulysses is set, Jacques Lacan opened the 5th International Joyce Symposium at the Sorbonne, in Paris, with a paper entitled ‘Joyce the Symptom’...
The Rules of the Game
Michael Plastow
In working with a group of autistic children, one of the clinical difficulties we encounter is their obliviousness to the usual social rules in which the social bond is manifested, rules that make possible the interactions, the relations between us. Thus the setting up of such a group necessitates some preliminary rules to attempt to provide a certain structure to the group. This is not a question of teaching children a number of rules as so many so-called social skills, but of providing a framework that might allow the group to function.
The Ex-sistence of the Father in the Seminar of David Pereira
Madeline Andrews
On the dust jacket of an English translation of Early Poems, 1947– 1959, Yves Bonnefoy’s writing is described as a means of “spiritual illumination” accessed through the “brokenness and poverty of language”.2 In his poem, Du mouvement et de l’immobilite de Douvé, which in many respects reads as a testimony of mourning, a vacillating movement between a type of faith (in remembrance) and resignation (forgetting proper) struggles for resolution at the brink of the limitations of language.
The Lacanoamerican Reunion of Psychoanalysis of Florianópolis
The Lacanoamerican Reunion is an event that occurs during a particular time and place every two years; this time in Florianópolis, Brazil.
Against Dissolution: Some reflections on a Clinical Observation
Roberto P. Neuburger
How is it possible to find reference points in a society in which they seem absent – a society that deems to restore these in the Real by means of spasmodic fits of ferocious enragement? Indeed, if psychoanalysis should become a cultural endeavour – like the drying up of the Zuydersee – it needs then to keep some anchoring points, even if menaced by shadows, whether in a gradually declining world or even within the psychoanalytic institution itself...
The Gaze of Gustave Courbet’s L’origine du Monde – a Response to Juan Davila
Linda Clifton
"In the scopic field everything is articulated between two terms that act in an antinomic way – on the side of things, there is the gaze, that is to say, things look at me, and yet I see them...