Lacan and Other Heresies

Linda Clifton is an analyst and former director of the Freudian School of Melbourne, founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977. Taking its direction from the writings of Freud and Lacan, the School pursues the investigation and transmission of psychoanalysis and the training of Lacanian analysts.

"Orthodoxy may be a lethal poison for theoretical and practical psychoanalysis, but all that is unorthodox is not for all that heretical. This book delineates the subtle game Lacan has played with these crisscross lines. Was Lacan himself an ‘heretic’? Is RSI a true ‘heresy’? What is the status of the assertion that there is no sexual relation in the Freudian field?Through very different approaches, the consistency of analytic knowledge is questioned here. How can the transmission of psychoanalysis occur within the framework of a school? How does the Oedipus complex work? What about the totemic father? The approach to these questions reflects the singularity of the Freudian School of Melbourne, its way of welcoming knowledge from abroad and building original (but not so heretical) perspectives on psychoanalysis".Guy Le Gaufey, French psychoanalyst, former member of the École freudienne de Paris, co-founder of the first French Lacanian Revue Littoral and former director of the École lacanienne de psychanalyse.

• Part I. 1. Heresy: Choose it or lose it Malcolm Morgan 2. Let no one enter here who does not believe in Oedipus David Pereira 3. S-exploitation Rodney Kleiman Part II. 4. Introduction Michael Gerard Plastow 5. How to do something with only the saying? Christian Fierens 6. "I think" in the psychoanalytic discourse or Cogito and the psychoanalytic discourse Christian Fierens 7. The failure of the phallus. What is to be done with sexuation? Christian Fierens 8. Interpretation with-out meaning Christian Fierens Part III. 9. Psychoanalysis or …psychoanalysts David Pereira 10. On the necessity of becoming dissolute Megan Williams 11. Writing out of School Peter Gunn Part IV. 12. Antigonal Michael Currie 13. Falling into silenceMichael Gerard Plastow 14. The words "Papa" and "Mama"—From the cave of language Debbie Plastow Part V. 15. Between destruction and becoming: Sabina Spielrein Michael Gerard Plastow 16. To put one’s name to what is not a thought… Megan Williams 17. The painter’s saying Michael Currie 18. The image that binds Tine Nørregaard 19. On the edge of the abyss Helen Dell Part VI. 20. A speaker’s corner Jonathan Kettle 21. Close to the wild child Peter Gunn