Vol 18 (3/4) 2000
Lacan’s Doctoral Thesis: Turbulent Preface or Founding Legend? – Olga Cox-Cameron
A Question of Ethics: Dream Interpretation and the Danger of Acting Out – Patricia McCarthy
The Addicted Subject caught between the Ego and the Drive: The Post-Freudian Reduction and Simplification of a Complex Clinical Problem – Rik Loose
The Place of Acting Out in Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Lacan – Alan Rowan
Lacan and the Sophist – Indications of the Logic of the Subject – Barry O’Donnell
The Origins of Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious: A Philosophical Link – Aviva Cohen
The Transmission of Trauma – An Analysis of the Possible Place of Deferred Action in passing on the Effects of Trauma – Tom McGrath
The Transmission of Trauma
Arising from the work of Fonagy and others, the question of the transmission of the effects of trauma is examined, particularly in the context of holocaust trauma and the survivors. Possible mechanisms are explored and the place of Freud's notion of deferred action is...
The Origins of Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious: A Philosophical Link
The recent publication of Freud’s correspondence to his school friend, Edward Silberstein, has provided new impetus for research into Freud’s relationship with the philosopher Franz Brentano. In this paper I will address one possible objection to any claim that the...
Lacan and the “Sophist” – Indications of the Logic of the Subject
In the Seminar Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan suggests that the logical conditions for the subsistence of the subject are indicated in Plato's Sophist. Lacan argues that the same conditions are necessary for there to be a signifier orientated with respect...
The Place of Acting Out in Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Lacan
Within psychoanalysis acting out is, today, a contested concept, both in terms of its theoretical underpinnings and with regard to its clinical application. In light of this the present paper presents a review of the concept which begins with Freud and moves on to...
The Addicted Subject caught between the Ego and the Drive: The post-Freudian Reduction and Simplification of a Complex Clinical Problem
Texts by Abraham, Rado, Glover and Gross are explored in order to investigate post-Freudian literature on the question of addiction. The reduction of the Freudian field is analysed in order to produce new foundation stones for a theory on addiction by confronting the...
A Question of Ethics: Dream Interpretation and the Danger of Acting Out
There is a reluctance to talk about the actuality of the clinic. As a clinician, I remain convinced that it is useful to do so. One has to be clear, however, about one's motive. Quite apart from issues of confidentiality, a clinical account often does not translate...
Lacan’s Doctoral Thesis: Tturbulent Preface or Founding Legend?
This paper presents a close reading of Lacan's doctoral thesis with a view to disentangling the reality of Lacan's thought in 1932 from the glosses of retrospection imposed on it by its republication in 1975. At this time Lacan was at the height of his fame as the...