Vol 20 (1) 2002
About the power of metaphor in poetry and psychoanalysis – Mark Adriaensen
Hysteria’s doing well, in fact she has never had it so good: Reflections starting from Showalter’s Hystories – Marc De Cuyper
Subject and Collectivity: An Interpretation of Lacan’s “Le temps logique” – David Blomme – Dominiek Hoens [text]
How do Institutions deal with the Impossibility in Assistance? – Stijn Vanheule
A case of erotomania – Stefan Verlinden
Repression, the Drive and the End of the Analytic Treatment – Frédéric Declercq
Freud’s Essay on Leonardo: The Debate 1910-2000 – Filip Geerardyn – Piet Vanclooster
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Freud’s Essay on Leonardo: The Debate 1910-2000
Starting from a critical reading of Freud's essay A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da Vinci, the author tries to assess whether it is still valuable. The historical debate between Schapiro and Eissler as well as to the more recent work of Maïdani Gerard and Collins is...
Repression, the Drive and the End of the Analytic Treatment
The article treats of the double etiology of psychopathology. From the beginning Freud and Lacan stressed that repression is not the only cause. The article mainly considers the topic of the fixation of the drive (Freud) or the real jouissance (Lacan) as being the...
A case of erotomania
Psychiatric classification of erotomania yields a variety of possibilities, situating erotomania along a continuum with personality disorders on one end and the schizophrenic disorders at the other end. The "Postulat Fondamental" of de Clérambault breaks with this...
How do Institutions deal with the Impossibility in Assistance?
In this paper the author considers the central problem in therapeutic assistance: the powerlessness of the therapist. Lacans discours-theory is used to illuminate this problem. Next the author considers the statute of the ego-ideal as a proposed solution to man's...
Subject and Collectivity: An Interpretation of Lacan’s “Le temps logique”
The rarely discussed text by Jacques Lacan, Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certitude, is subjected to a detailed analysis. After explaining the argument, the importance of the "sophism" is shown for Lacan's ideas about the subject and collectivity....
Hysteria’s doing well, in fact she has never had it so good: Reflections starting from Showalter’s Hystories
This is a review of Elaine Showalter's book concerning the modern appearance of hysteria. We focused mainly on the Incest Recovery Movement and Multiple Personality Disorder, the new way for the hysteric to give shape to the impossible sexual relation. What can...
About the power of metaphor in poetry and psychoanalysis
This article investigates the relationship between the poetic use of language and analytic interpretation. Poetry and psychoanalysis are strongly formalised practices which, by transgressing the laws of discourse, lay bare the intimate relation one has with...