The Letter
Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Revista en inglés de la Escuela de Psicoterapia del Hospital Universitario St. Vincents, de Dublin, Irlanda, publica textos de psicoanálisis de orientación lacaniana y algunos trabajos de cartel de miembros de la Escuela Irlandesa de Psicoanálisis Lacaniano- Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis – fundada por Cormac Gallager en 2007. Iniciada en 1994 con el subtítulo "Perspectivas Lacanianas en Psicoanálisis" fue relanzada en 2008 como "The Letter", en versión impresa y trianual. Existe archivo en línea ( www.theletter.ie ) con artículos publicados a partir de 1994.

En la misma dirección, se admiten manuscritos en versión electrónica, con formato en Microsoft Word, y cuatro copias impresas a

The Letter
The School of Psychotherapy
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Ireland

El volumen de Otoño 2008 presenta Editorial de autoría de Tom Dalzell y una traducción al inglés a cargo de Cormac Gallager, del texto en francés de Guy Le Gaufey "Una introducción para la lectura crítica de las fórmulas de la sexuación", en L’unebévue" ed ( 2005), no. 22, preliminar al libro del mismo autor "El notodo de Lacan: consistencia lógica, consecuencias clínicas", ( 2006)ya publicado en castellano- El cuenco de plata, Bs.As, 2007.

La revista publica texto de Guy Le Gaufey con debate por el psicoanalista belga Christian Fierens y nueva contra-réplica del primero . Otros artículos incluidos en este volumen son, de autoría de Patricia Mc Carthy - Elogio de la incompletud- , de Irene Sweeney - El Banquete de Platón como antecedente de una consideración sobre el objeto descrito como "parcial"- y de Tom Dazell - Las Nadas de Kant y el objeto vacío de Lacan- retomando lecturas del texto de Le Gaufey .

Comité Editorial de la revista: Tom Dalzell, Patricia McCarthy, Barry O’Donnell, Helen Sheehan.

Brief History of Psychoanalysis in Ireland

Autumn 2006 - Issue 38

• Cormac Gallagher From Freud's mythology of sexuality to Lacan's formulae of sexuation
• Helen Sheehan Sigmund Freud: the time for understanding
• Gerry Sullivan Freud in the twenty-first century: a Chinese puzzle
• Angela Noonan Where there is no couch: the possibilities for psychoanalysis in the public mental health service
• Emer Rutledge The possibilities of psychoanalysis in psychiatry
• Claire Hawkes Psychoanalysis and schizophrenia
• Malachi McCoy A child's textbook
• Bernard Kennedy The Freudian understanding of the symptom
• Mary Cullen Drugs + thugs + da + loves
• Patricia McCarthy A question of research for psychoanalysis, the health service and the university
• Aisling Campbell Psychoanalysis and psychiatry
• Barry O'Donnell Discovering transference

Summer 2006 - Issue 37

• Rolando Karothy The Writing of Joyce
• Oscar Zentner From the Lacan-Joyce Correspondence
• Colette Soler Joyce's Nora
• Andrew Lewis The Psychoanalytici Case History
• Stephen J. Costello Freud's Political Philosophy
• Aisling Campbell A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Borderline Personality Disorder
• Ian Parker Losing Psychoanalysis in Translation
• Kazushige Shingu Japanese Myth, Buddhist Legend, and the Structural Analysis of Clinical Dreams in relation to the Mourning Process
• Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker Comments on the Presentations given by Ian Parker y Kazushige Shingu
• Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker Style is the Man Himself
• Cathal Morgan Book Review of On Being Normal and Other Disorders: a Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics by Paul Verhaeghe

Spring 2006 - Issue 36

• Cormac Gallagher Lacan's Viator and The Time Traveller's Wife
• Barry O'Donnell Lacan's invention
• Florencia F.C. Shanahan Erring Fathers
• Patricia McCarthy Psychoanalysis is the knowledge of the rules of the game of love. A commentary on the logical and topological structure of unconscious knowledge
• Denise Brett A ring errors
• Charles Melman George Best and the names of the father
• Peter Kelly Getting cl(o)ser û a real intoxication
• Carol Owens Addicts in recovery: re-covery in analysis?
• Oliver Murphy Psychical structures and Alcoholics Anonymous
• Marie Walshe Desertion and disintegration in an adolescent dream odyssey
• Eve Watson Oedipus dup(e)licated: Artificial intelligence and the matr(e)ices of desire and the symbolic
• Ray O'Neill Oedipus dup(e)licated: (Re)producing children in the postmodern world of hyperreality

Autumn 2005 – Issue 35

• Cormac Gallagher Nets to knots: The odyssey to a beyond of barbarism
• Olga Cox Cameron Calling a spate a spate: Riverrun writing in the Anna Livia section of Finnegans Wake
• Patricia McCarthy Home comes everybody. Questions about the familiar in the Ithaca episode of Ulysses
• Terry Ball Epiphanies and the clinic
• Florencia F.C. Shanahan Buenos Irish
• Bernard Kennedy Joyce, the castration complex, and the nom du père
• Ray O’Donnchadha Portrait of the artist as a Jung man: a cock and bull story
• Medb Ruane Who chose this face for me? Some commodius vicuses of recirculation in Lacan and Joyce
• Denise Brett The lost subject
• Kay Murphy ‘Elijah, skiff, light throwaway thing’: why has the name of Elijah appeared so often in Ulysses?
• Pauline O’Callaghan Gabriel’s (o)bo-gender, sinthome and courtly love in The Dead
• Helen Sheehan A disturbance of memory at Dublin Castle
• Sandra Carroll The art of the epiphany

Summer 2005 – Issue 34

• Calum Neill An idiotic act: On the non-example of Antigone
• Helena Texier Antigone goes beyond-the-beyond: From the ‘my lady’ of the ideal to the malady of the Ideal
• Kazushige Shingu Freud, Lacan and Japan
• Kazushige Shingu A history of the self-containing structure of the mind
• Lieven Jonckheere On the franchissement of anxiety in Lacan’s Seminar X
• Jongju Kim Depression and neo-Confucian ethics
• Masaaki Hoshina On sublimation
• Geoff Boucher The logical status of Lacan’s "formulae of sexuation"

Spring 2005 – Issue 33

• Cormac Gallagher Re-Englishing Encore
• Pauline O’Callaghan Courtly love to Courtney Love – Still no such thing as a sexual relationship?
• Patricia McCarthy A commentary on Lacan’s hainamoration and an introduction to the affair of love between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
• Aisling Campbell A twist in the tale
• Eve Watson ‘An-Other’ jouissance: Unmasking the ‘vamp-ire’ and Marilyn Monroe
• Carol Owens To work perchance to love
• Florencia Fernández Coria Shanahan What kind of love is this?
• Bernard Kennedy St. Teresa, mysticism and ‘that’s not it’: The agalma of homosexual and heterosexual desire
• Michael Murphy Jean Genet’s inquiry into language

Autumn 2004 - Issue 32

• Donna Redmond Asperger’s syndrome: Some psychoanalytic comments
• Colette Chouraqui-Sepel Lacanian psychoanalysis and psychosis
• Joanne Fortune Now that I am forever with child
• Joanne Conway Melancholia – a perverse act? The case of the frog and the eel
• Oscar Zentner The exile of James Joyce: Après le mot le deluge

Summer 2004 – Issue 31

• Eve Watson Crime and punishment
• Miquel Bassols Law and desire beyond Oedipus
• Ros Woods The real in India or the real India? The one and the other
• Pauline O’Callaghan Stendhal’s syndrome
• Marie Walshe Enjoying the symptom: A faithful suffering
• Barry O’Donnell Symptom and anxiety
• Andrew Lewis Models of temporality in psychoanalysis

Issue 30 – Spring 2004

• Cormac Gallagher Where was Jacques Lacan in 1971-72? … Ou Pire and The Knowledge of the Psychoanalysts
• Claude-Noële Pickman Examining a clinic of the not-all
• Barry O’Donnell The Parmenides and the one
• Patricia McCarthy The formulae of sexuation: From inexistence to possibility and from impossibility to contingency
• Dolores Tunnecliffe Children in distress: Approaches and challenges to psychoanalysis with children in the school setting
• Helena Texier Desire unto death: Childsplay
• Rob Weatherill Klein’s bottle: Getting Real
• Marcus Pound Indirect analysis: Lacan, Kieregaard and humour
• Carol Owens The birth of the mother
• Martin Daly The nightmare

Issue 29 –Autumn 2003

• Liveen Jonckheere 'I'm Burnt': a psychotic neologism in melancholia
• Katrien Steenhoudt Forgotten voids in the gaze on melancholia
• Olga Cox Cameron Signifying nothing: Lacanian theory and tragic form
• Helena Texier My possible impossibility: Death in the life of the obsessional

Issue 28 – Summer 2003

• Veroniek Knockaert, Gertrudis Van De Vijver & Filip Geerardyn The intergenerational transmission of the holocaust trauma: The legacy of an impossible memory
• Rob Weatherill The Universe is therapeutic: Life in-sists before it ex-ists in signs
• Eve Watson Why not war? Dialectics of the will to aggression in the recent 'U.S.' led war on Iraq
• Caroline Noone Autism and psychoanalysis: Uneasy bedfellows
• Ray O' Neill Naming the love that dares not speak its name: The politics and Perils of language and sexuality
• An Lievrouw Psychoanalysis and research: A matter of ethics

Issue 27 - Spring 2003

• Cormac Gallagher On A Discourse That Might Not Be A Semblance: Book XVIII (1971): a collage
• Frédéric Declercq Freud's scientism and its impact on the analysis of the Wolf-Man
• Marion Deane Lebar Na H-Uidre: Book Of The Dun Cow A Translation
• Marion Deane The Birth of the Hero and the origin of society: reciprocity and incest in Compert Conculainn
• Patricia McCarthy Writing and enjoyment: a commentary
• Brendan Staunton Lacan and Matisse: overlapping discourses?
• David Cluxton The Super-ego and enjoyment
• Helen Sheehan Of course I'm not a racist … but
• Maryrose Kiernan Truth or make-believe: psychoanalytic discourse. Whose truth is it anyway?

Issue 26 - Autumn 2002

• Frédéric Declercq Full and Empty Speech within Psychoanalytic Practice
• Ann De Rick Freud's Clinical Category of 'Actual Neuroses': The Return of the Repressed
• Carol Owens The Case of the 'Falling Man': An Examination of the Function of Demand in Analytic Practice
• Eugenie Georgaca On Being the Other's Object: A Case of the Sexual Masochism
• Ray O'Neill The Lies, the Wise and the Wardrobe: Homophobia, Homosexuality and the Closet on the Couch
• Els Van Compernolle Depression, Sign of the Times

Issue 25 Summer 2002

• Charles Melman Returning to Schreber: 5th December 1994
• Paul Verhaeghe Remarks on the Theory and Treatment of (Pathological) Administrations of Enjoyment
• Rik Loose The Subject of Addiction
• Adrian Johnston In Language more than Language Itself: Reconsidering the Significance of Structuralism in Lacan's Thought
• Colm Massey Indirect Speech and Communication
• Alan Rowan The Problematic Shadow of Super-Vision in Analytic Supervision

Issue 24 Spring 2002

• Cormac Gallagher The new tyranny of knowledge: Seminar XVII (1969-70) - background and overview
• Mary Darby The envers of psychiatry: psychoanalysis and psychiatry should be friends
• Aisling Campbell Some short cuts to desire
• Frédéric Declercq The other side of the symptom
• Katrien Libbrecht The emergence of psychoanalysis in the changing of discourses
• André Michels The unconscious and the real
• Gérard Pommier How can one speak of a subject of the Unconscious?
• Claude-Noële Pickmann La femme donne à la jouissance d'oser le masque de la repetition
• Patricia Stewart Beyond Lacan
• Rob Weatherill Psychoanalysis and the night
• Patricia McCarthy The reverse of psychoanalysis - how far? A commentary on discourse, knowledge and enjoyment

Issue 23 Autumn 2001

• Hubert Van Hoorde Psychiatry and psychoanalysis: the hedgehogs
• Franck Chaumon The drives and the stakes involved
• Dominique Simonney A few observations concerning a psychoanalytical cure of an adolescent
• Cormac Gallagher What does Jacques Lacan see in Blaise Pascal?
• Carol Owens The mOther of all anxiety
• Paul Verhaeghe Perversion II: the perverse structure
• Olga Cox-Cameron To think differently: Michel Foucault and the status of psychoanalytic theory
• Stijn Vanheule Inhibition: 'I am because I don't act'

Issue 22 Summer 2001

• Cormac Gallagher 2001 international symposium on psychoanalytic research
• Dany Nobus Beyond the rebus principle? Psychoanlysis and Chinese dream interpretation
• Gérard Pommier Psychoanalysis in China? The importance of psychoanalysing the desire to heal, in particular, the desire to heal children
• Erik Porge The place and contribution of handwriting in clinical psychoanalysis
• Paul Verhaeghe Perversion 1: perverse traits
• Olga Cox-Cameron Enduring Love: from urbane objectivity to panicked object
• André Michels The meaning of psychoses in Lacan's reading of Freud

Issue 21 Spring 2001

• Cormac Gallagher From an Other to the other: an overview
• Rob Weatherill The proximity of the other: psychoanalysis and Levinas
• Patricia McCarthy This is my body: the clinic of the o-objects or of the body of enjoyment
• Lieven Jonckheere The symptom between Marxism and psychoanalysis
• Tom De Belie A structural diagnosis of toxicomania
• Hugh Arthurs The question of the drive in psychoanalysis
• Aisling Campbell From neuroscience to neuropsychoanalysis: mission impossible?
• Claude Landeman Le pari de Pascal - Pascal's wager

Issue 20 Autumn 2000

• Dirk Bryssinck Psychosis, toxicomania and 'the homeless'
• Frédéric Declercq Signifier and signification in the practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis
• Peter Kelly Poles apart? A question of identity: from a unified self to a divided subject
• Philip Dodd Learning disability: two writers and a question
• Cormac Gallagher On first looking into Foucault's 'history'
• Frédéric Gros Note on sexuality in the work of Michel Foucault
• Aisling Campbell Conference Report: 1st annual conference on neuroscientific and psychoanalytic perspectives on emotion

Issue 19 Summer 2000

• André Michels Anxiety, time and psychical structure
• Jean-Pierre Lebrun The 21st Century will be Lacanian or it will be Barbarian!
• Olga Cox-Cameron Narrative Impasse: the Act as passage à l'acte
• Adrian Johnston Just say 'no' to cogito
• Katharine Swarbrick Lacan reads Rousseau: a narrative instance of the body-in-pieces

Issue 18 Spring 2000

• Cormac Gallagher A reading of The Psychoanalytic Act (1967-1968).
• Patricia McCarthy To speak about what's involved in the psychoanalytic act, one has to speak about logic.
• Patricia Stewart Act and behaviour: Pavlovian fallacies.
• Michael T. Murphy Phantasy and the psychoanalytic act - Freud, Klein and Lacan. What is involved in the psychoanlaytic act...
• Liberato Santoro-Brienza Whose decline and fall? - Eysenck's version of psychoanalysis.
• Anthony McCarthy Psychoanalysis and the formation of the psychiatrist.
• Megan Williams Hyp-knot-ism of the obsessional symptom in analysis.
• Cormac Gallagher Overview of The Psychoanalytic Act.

Issue 17 Autumn 1999

• Cormac Gallagher Sexual difference in The Logic of Phantasy.
• Jason Glynos Metalanguage, formal structures, and the dissolution of transference.
• Olga Cox-Cameron The way we talk: psychotic language and The Butcher Boy.
• Rik Loose A Gross episode.
• Pauline O'Callaghan Note on Kristeva.
• Paul Verhaeghe Subject and body - Lacan's struggle with the real.

Issue 16 Summer 1999

• Charles Melman Addiction
• Franziska Huber Gambling: pain, pleasure and play.
• André Michels On the crisis on legitimation in the institution.
• Jacques Laberge Of the real, paradoxes and contradictions.
• Ros McCarthy Suicide, a family narrative on the edge of consciousness.
• Pauline O'Callaghan Lacan and Seminar XX.
• Adrian Johnston The Object of its affection. Reconsidering temporality and object-choice in Lacan's theory of sexual difference.

Issue 15 Spring 1999

• Lieven Jonckheere According to Marcel Duchamp. La mariée mise a nu par ses célibataires, mÃme and the ready- made.
• Patricia McCarthy The impossibility of the sexual act (Some thoughts on perversion and obsessional neurosis).
• Helena Texier Elizabeth - the virgin queen and the maid (A consideration of the hysteric's homosexuality as faithfulness to the Original One, and of the place of the father in it).
• Patricia Stewart Bergler's Basic Neurosis
• Tony Hughes Exchange-value and use in psychoanalysis.
• Cormac Gallagher Jacques Lacan's summary of the seminar of 1966-1967 (Year book of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). Anthony McCarthy False memory debate: introduction.
• Maeve Nolan Psychoanalysis, seduction and false memories.
• Peter Byrne Recovered memories / false memories: a psychiatric perspective.
• Barry O'Donnell Memory and phantasy.

Issue 14 Autumn 1998

• William J. Richardson Lacan for beginners
• William J. Richardson The subject of ethics
• Marcel Czermak Peut-on parler de psychose sociale?
• Helen Sheehan The follower.
• Claude Dumézil Symptome, ethique et désir d'analyste.
• Rik Loose A review of Freud's early remarks on addiction: from an ideal to masturbation.
• Paul Verhaeghe Trauma and hysteria within Freud and Lacan.
• Tom McGrath Psychology and Psychoanalysis - a scientific paradigm.
• Charles Melman Lecture raisonnée et critique des oeuvres de Freud et de Lacan.
• Olga Cox Cameron Lacan and Dali - an anamorphic encounter?
• Christiane Lacote Une torpeur ordinaire
• Helena Texier We can remember it for you wholesale.
• Guy Le Gaufey The tight-rope walkers

Issue 13 Summer 1998

• Lieven Jonckheere Latent Freudian thoughts towards a theory of neurotic depression: Part One - The anxiety-neurotic depression.
• Lieven Jonckheere Latent Freudian thoughts towards a theory of neurotic depression:Part Two - A purely hysterical depression?
• Olga Cox-Cameron In pursuit of the fading subject across the field of fantasy.
• André Michels Hysteria and femininity
• Stephen J. Costello The real of religion and its relation to truth as cause.
• Hugh Cummins Robert Louis Stevenson and the theme of the double.
• Helena Texier Wo steht Lacan heute? Lacanian psychoanalysis in Ireland.
• Yves-Pierre Baumstimler Identity and inter-religious dialogue: dialogue or identity-hate.
• Cormac Gallagher Lacan for Beginners
• Rik Loose Book Review - Hill's Lacan for Beginners
• Sarah McAuley Book Review - Leader's Lacan for Beginners

Issue 12 Spring 1998

• Cormac Gallager 'Ireland, Mother Ireland': an essay in psychoanalytic symbolism.
• Patricia McCarthy The heart of the matter. More topological considerations on the subject.
• Brendan Staunton Lacan on Las Meninas. The visual structure of the human subject.
• Patricia Stewart Psychoanalysis - who needs it?
• Sarah McAuley Psychoanalysis - who needs it?
• Barry O'Donnell Plato's good for Lacan.
• André Michels Institutions and law. A contribution to a theory of transmission.
• Clare Daly Menstruation - the ultimate taboo?
• Orla Salmon The impossibility of desire within romantic love as revealed in A.S.Byatt's novel 'Possession: A Romance'
• John Hughes A couch up a public health psychiatrist's sleeve.
• Tom McGrath Ethics and the objects of psychoanalysis - A response.

Issue 11 Autumn 1997

• William J. Richardson "Like straw": religion and psychoanalysis.
• Colman Duggan Seduction -the universal enigma - a clinical consideration of the subject(ed).
• Stephen J. Costello The pale criminal and the need for punishment: a Freudian perspective.
• Antoinette Wills Putting the family in the picture.
• Josette Zouein An ex-eyety: a Lacanian signifier?
• Aisling Campbell Affect: it's the real thing.
• Rob Weatherill Affects: the absolute subject.
• Cormac Gallagher "Despair, despair, despair...spare!"-affect in Lacanian theory and practice.

Issue 10 Summer 1997

• Tom McGrath The institutionalisation of psychoanalysis.
• William Fried An overture and its vicissitudes: therapy, analysis or...?
• André Michels Some remarks on William Fried's presentation: 'An overture and its vicissitudes: therapy, analysis or...?'
• Barry O'Donnell Reading Plato's Symposium.
• Phil McAree Bryan Charnley - biographical note.
• Katrien Libbrecht Pandora's Box: On the Function of Secrecy in Psychoanalysis.
• Eithne Lannon The Remains of the Day.
• Yannis Stavrakakis On the political implications of Lacanian theory: a reply to Homer.

Issue 9 Spring 1997

• Cormac Gallagher Being, knowing and sexual difference.
• Maeve Nolan The problem of the crucial object in psychoanalysis.
• Tony Hughes The rapture of Lol. V. Stein.
• Patricia McCarthy Of Klein bottles, cuts and sex.
• Barry O'Donnell The Sophist and the psychoanalyst.
• Guy Le Gaufey A portrait of the analyst as a crucial problem.
• Dany Nobus Rumpelstiltskin's revenge: On the importance of proper names in psychoanalysis.
• Stephen J. Costello What type of knowledge?: The Fideist position in psychoanalytic praxis.
• Paul Verhaeghe The crucial problems: The end of the treatment, transmission and institutionalisation.

Issue 8 Autumn 1996

• André Michels Oscar Wilde: aesthete and homosexual.
• André Michels The hatred of the father in perversion.
• Stephen J. Costello Lacan and the lure of the look.
• K. Temmerman & J. Quackelbeen Autoerotic Asphyxia from phenomenology to psychoanalysis.
• Cormac Gallagher Religion and obsessional neurosis.
• Robert Levy Theory, clinic...A question of ethics?
• Helen Sheehan Anxiety: preserving the objet a.
• Barry O'Donnell Ella Freeman Sharpe - A review of her contribution.

Issue 7 Summer 1996

• Paul Verhaeghe Teaching psychoanalysis: A double impossiblity.
• Aisling Campbell How can Lacanian theory be represented in the media?
• Filip Geerardyn & Julien Quackelbeen Psychoanalysis and neurosciences: A particular parcours interview with Mark Leonard De Gier Solms.
• Nessa Breen Lacan in Barthes.
• Olga Cox Narrative, anxiety and the temporal factor.
• Alan Rowan Lacanian approach to problems of affect and anxiety in psychoanalysis.
• Sean Homer Psychoanalysis, representation, politics: On the (Im)possibility of a psychoanalytic theory of ideology?
• Josette Zouein and Brendan Staunton Analyse Freudienne London Conference April 1995. A summary (conference report).
• Aisling Campbell Trauma in Charlton (conference report).
• Olga Cox Female Fetishism. A New Look. (book review).

Issue 6 Spring 1996

• Cormac Gallagher High Anxiety: A theoretical and clinical challenge to psychoanalysis.
• Helen Sheehan The concept of Anxiety within an Object Relations Perspective.
• Rik Loose Libido and Toxic Substance.
• Paul Verhaeghe The Riddle of Castration Anxiety: Lacan Beyond Freud.
• Helena Texier Anxiety and Phobia: Sign and Symptom?
• Gerry Sullivan Psychic Structure and Manifestations of Anxiety within the Clinic.
• Brendan Staunton Anxiety, Art and Aufhebung: Sublation, Manet and Anxiety.
• Tom McGrath The Illusion of a Future: Freud's Anxiety and Religion.
• Aisling Campbell The Absence of Anxiety: A Case of Transvestism.
• Patricia McCarthy In Schrebers' Case: An Exploration of Psychotic Anxiety.
• Dany Nobus Closing Remarks: Not Enough and Never Too Much.

Issue 5 Autumn 1995

• Cormac Gallagher Lacan's summary of Seminar XI.
• Charles Melman The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
• Rik Loose Some short odds on gambling: a psychoanalytic approach.
• André Michels Some remarks on Oedipus and writing.
• Helen Sheehan The peré-versions of Dubliners.
• Paul Verhaeghe Jacques Lacan's return to Freud: Woman does not exist.
• Sandra Carroll Dalí: psychoanalysis visualised.
• Filip Geerardyn On psychotherapy: a Freudo-Lacanian point of view.

Issue 4 Summer 1995

• Guy Le Gaufey The Object a.
• Helena Texier Through the Looking Glass.
• Aisling Campbell Is the concept of the death drive essential when speaking of trauma?
• Claus-Dieter Rath The purloined tongue.
• Ann Hanrahan The signifier and Shakespeare.
• Gerry Sullivan Obsessionality, capitalism, Transgression.
• Liberato Santoro Eating desire.
• Martin Stanton Psychic contusion: remarks on Ferenczi and trauma.
• Claude Dumezil The question of orthodoxy: clinical reflections on the direction of the cure.
• Aisling Campbell Ghent report.
• Maeve Nolan and Rik Loose UAPS report.

Issue 3 Spring 1995

• Rik Loose & Gerry Sullivan A Case of Hysteria?
• Maeve Nolan Beauty and the butcher - the desire of the hysteric and its interpretation.
• Aisling Campbell Hysteria and litigation: coping with the real of trauma.
• Rob Weatherill Culture and hysteria.
• Gerry Sullivan Modernity as an hysterical experience.
• Nellie Curtin & Mary Cullen Is hysteria a feminist response or is feminism an expression of hysteria?
• Paul Verhaeghe From impossibility to inability: Lacan's theory on the four discourses.
• Patricia McCarthy The trace of l'objet petit o through the case of Anna O.
• Cormac Gallagher Hysteria: does it exist?

Issue 2 Autumn 1994

• Julian Quackelbeen Lacanian comments on "What can I know?", "What ought I to do?", "What may I hope for?".
• Paul Verhaeghe Psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and hysteria.
• Aisling Campbell Narrative and desire in The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom.
• Cormac Gallagher & Mary Darby Optical Schema.The historical development and clinical implications of Jacques Lacan's
• C. Edward Robins The man who sold words.
• Helena Comiskey-Texier Little Hans' real father.

Issue 1 Summer 1994

• Cormac Gallagher Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: an Irish stew?
• Guy le Gaufey The analyst confronted with state legitimacy.
• Malcolm Bowie Psychoanalysis and the future of theory
• John Forrester What are the consequences of drawing an analogy between speech and money?
• Olga Cox Beckett's Unnamable: not I, not mad.
• Rik Loose Analytical discourse and scientific discourse: a difference in responsibility.
• Patricia McCarthy The economies of the subject serve both repression and the signifier.
• Helen Sheehan The jouissance of the mystic.
• William J. Richardson The third generation of desire.
• Charles Melman Paranoia.