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	Editoriaal Veroniek Knockaert Een open brief in een gesloten omslag [abstract] Wim Galle Het vreemde en de instelling Een brief aan de vreemdeling van Camus [abstract] Jeroen Donckers Het genot van een fascist. Kritische beschouwingen bij Frank Vande Veires fascismedefinitie [abstract] Marc De Kesel Wilde kinderen, wilde taaltheorieën Lacans visie op de betekenaar aan de hand van Kaspar Hauser en Victor de l'Aveyron [abstract] Dries Roelandts Omgaan met agressie binnen de instelling Slaags raken met mensen voor wie we er proberen te zijn [abstract] David Blomme Il était une fois... La féminité et la position féminine [abstract] Veroniek Knockaert Ethiek in tijden van normen en waarden Over de mogelijkheid van een ethiek van het reële [abstract] François Levrau Men kan niet Eén worden Over het lichaam tussen taal en genot [abstract] Abe Geldhof Het raadsel van Kaspar Hauser in de film "Jeder für sich und Gott gegen Alle" van Werner Herzog [abstract] Julien Quackelbeen La sublimation chez Lacan: destruction créatrice du sujet [abstract] [text] Viviana M. Saint-Cyr INTERVIEW "Candy Darling" Silvia Defrance & Filip Geerardyn [text]
Een open brief in een gesloten omslag Wim Galle An Open Letter in a Closed Envelope Summary: The author writes a long letter to a psychiatric patient with whom he has been corresponding for several years. The letter was written on the occasion of a Congress on chronicity as the central theme ("Psychoanalytic work with chronic patients, Gent, 16. April, 2008). It is primarily a personal letter covering some important themes in their conversations: time, the attitude towards psychiatry, life and death, the father and a woman. The author tries to describe their humane encounter and how this affects both author and patient. Key words: Chronicity and Psychoanalysis, A Stolen Letter, Euthanasia, The Joke Het vreemde en de instelling. Een brief aan de vreemdeling van Camus Jeroen Donckers The Odd and the Institution: A Letter to the Stranger of Camus Summary: In a letter addressed to Meursault, the stranger in Albert Camus' novel of the same name, we try to grasp the significance an institution can have for the human being. For instance in the novel it is clear that Meursault is content in his position of the accused. Perhaps the institution functions as a protective shield, or acquires a translating or mediating role between actuality and history, between guilt and anxiety, between the familiar and the strange. Key words: Albert Camus, Meursault, The Strange, Institution. Het genot van een fascist. Kritische beschouwingen bij Frank Vande Veires fascismedefinitie Marc De Kesel A Fascist's Enjoyment. Critical Remarks on Frank Vande Veire's Definition of Fascism Summary: "Fascism is sadism". This is the central thesis in the long opening chapter of Frank Vande Veire, Take, Eat, This is My Body – Fascination and Intimidation in Contemporary Culture (2005). In his essay, Marc De Kesel comments on the main theoretical source of Vande Veire's definition of fascism, Lacan's theory of perversion, and on how it reveals the cruelty that is typical of fascist practices. However, defining fascism as perversion is a bridge too far, argues De Kesel. Fascism must first and foremost be defined as a discourse, and both the definition and the analysis of fascism must follow from this. That the fascist discourse enables a perverse subject position does not imply that fascism is to be reduced to that position. Such reductionism falls into the trap of a moralising – and, more precisely, diabolising – view on fascism. De Kesel warns against any such moralising use of the critical tools of psychoanalysis as it weakens substantially its critical potential. Key words: Fascism, Perversion, Lacanian Theory, Moralising, Critical Theory. Wilde kinderen, wilde taaltheorieën. Lacans visie op de betekenaar aan de hand van Kaspar Hauser en Victor de l'Aveyron Dries Roelandts Wild Children, Wild Language Theories: Lacan's View of the Signifier through an Analysis of Kaspar Hauser and Victor of Aveyron Summary: This article illustrates Lacan's theory of language and the signifier using the story of two feral children. It is first argued that the failure to educate Victor of Aveyron to become a subject is related to the inaccuracy of his educator's theory of language. The function of language is not to communicate one's needs, nor is it the signifier's function to refer to an object. The signifier only refers to other signifiers and it signifies absence. It is in that way that it raises an infant to be a cultural being. It was this process that guaran¬teed the socializing and subjectification of the second feral child, Kaspar Hauser. Key words: A Theory of Language, Signifier, Socializing, Kaspar Hauser, Victor of Aveyron. Omgaan met agressie binnen de instelling, Slaags raken met mensen voor wie we er proberen te zijn David Blomme Coping with Aggression within an Institution Summary: Physical aggression incidents directly confront care workers with the limits of their capacity "to be good" to the patient. The severity of these incidents is not determined by the measurable and objective facts but depends upon the subjective experience of the victim. Coping with aggression within the context of an institution means giving team members enough room to verbalize this subjective experience in order to make working with the patient possible again. With three clinical cases it is shown how team members that took the opportunity to verbalize their subjective experience discovered, to their surprise, that they had contributed to the incident. Key words: Aggression, Psychoanalysis & Institution, Intervision, Supervision, Debriefing, Working alliance, Transference. Il était une fois... La féminité et la position féminine Veroniek Knockaert Once upon a Time: Femininity and the Feminine Position Summary: This article has as a central reference Jelinek's revised version of the fairytale "Sleeping Beauty". The author describes how the two protagonists, Sleeping Beauty and her Prince, encounter, take up their positions and mark both relation and difference. Jelinek's interpretation allows for one to address the question of femininity in a structural manner. The idea of a feminine position is explicated through a comparison of Sleeping Beauty with Antigone. In contrast with this feminine position, the position of the prince is characterized as a place of unity: the place of he that is who he is. This leads to the question of a(n) (im)possible relation between a crazy feminine desire and a unique phallic desire. Key words: Fairy Tales, Jelinek, Feminine Position, Impossible Sexual Relationship. Ethiek in tijden van normen en waarden, Over de mogelijkheid van een ethiek van het reële François Levrau Ethics in a Time of Norms and Values. About the Ethics of the Real Summary: This text aims to clarify the possibility of an ethics of the real. First, we define an ethics of desire, the kind of ethics this article wants to argue against. Next, we highlight the ethics of the real by indicating why the real is a crucial dimension for ethics (the real gives space to the free will) and by illustrating how modern society neglects the importance of dealing with the real. We unravel the ethics of the real by pointing to the ethics of Lacanian psychoanalysis and to the ethics of truth as conceptualized by the French philosopher Alain Badiou. Finally, we question whether the ethics of the real gives rise to evil. Key words: Alain Badiou, Alenka Zupančič, Ethics of Desire, Ethics of the Real, Slavoj Žižek. Men kan niet Eén worden, Over het lichaam tussen taal en genot Abe Geldhof You cannot become One Summary: The evolution of Lacan's theory of the body in psychosis is presented, starting from his seminar on the sinthome. Some points of rupture can be found retrospectively in Lacan's theory. From his first conceptualization of the imaginary body, then of the symbolic body and finally of the real body, Lacan comes to the conclusion that the imaginary, the symbolic and the real must be knotted. Lacan's latest teaching offers novel perspectives on the difficult relation between body, language and jouissance for every speaking being. This is illustrated by means of three short case studies about James Joyce, Antonin Artaud and Michel H. Key words: Body, Language, Jouissance, Psychosis. Het raadsel van Kaspar Hauser in de film "Jeder für sich und Gott gegen Alle" van Werner Herzog Julien Quackelbeen The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser in Werner Herzog's Film "Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle" (1974) Summary: This comment on Werner Herzog's film "Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle" (1974) deals with the enigma of Kasper Hauser's origins, with the precarious status of the body and with his introduction into language. This is related to the problem of becoming a subject. The question arises as to what in this becoming constitutes the first and necessary anchoring point: what is the necessary condition for becoming a human subject? Key words: Ancestry, The Becoming of the Subject, Embodiment, Proper Name, Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog. La sublimation chez Lacan: destruction créatrice du sujet Viviana M. Saint-Cyr Sublimation in Lacan: The Creative Destruction of the Subject Summary: We will try to demonstrate that the experience of Abbot Suger de Saint-Denis, creator of Gothic architecture, based on the logic of Lacanian sublimation, comes from the elevation of an object to the dignity of the Thing (Lacan, 1986 [1959-1960]: 133). On the one hand, this experience is a misguided elevation: Suger arrives (Lat. "surgit") at the truth via material things, but also Suger (Lat. "surgit"), in architectural terms, ascends as the subject of desire. On the other hand, this experience illustrates the dichotomous relation between elevation/descent and creation/destruction in the sublimation that we call "sujerienne". The architecture of Abbot Suger innovates and this singular experience allows us to address the choséité (thingness) of the architectural object: the void. It also allows us to relate the elevation of sublimation to elevation in architecture. And this highlights the correspondence between elevation of sublimation and the development of the imaginary representation of the Thing. This development cannot take place without an act of creative destruction of the Subject. Key words: Sublimation, Architecture, Creation, Thing, Subject, Void.