Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings

Megan Williams is a psychoanalyst of more than 30 years’ standing, based in Australia. She is an Analyst of the School of the Freudian School of Melbourne and practises psychoanalysis in Melbourne as well as giving seminars. She has published numerous articles in psychoanalysis and has a particular interest in writing.

“The strength of the volume is that it is based in clinical practice, while remaining richly scholarly/theoretical in terms of conceptual apparatus and textual engagement. To those who ask if its ideas are practical, I would reply that clinical practice in the highly poetic field of psychoanalysis can only be enriched by the encounter with original and unabashed thinking, which sparks new energies and avenues in the reader, none of which reactions are predictable in advance, or even likely to be common among a given cohort. In this regard, the volume strikes me as eminently practical, but not in the manner of a recipe.” - Paul Magee, Professor of Poetry, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra

• About the editor and contributorsLogosMegan WilliamsPart I: MadnessChapter 1. Vale Rodney Kleiman (28/12/1957–23/08/2024)David PereiraChapter 2. Believing in madnessRodney KleimanChapter 3. Believing in OndineDebbie PlastowChapter 4. The madness of the analystPeter GunnPart II: Disavowal … not without anxiety Chapter 5. Lacan’s Sadean reading of jouissanceLinda CliftonChapter 6. Me too: I know nothingMegan WilliamsPart III: In praise of hysteria—Symposium in honour of Moustapha SafouanChapter 7. Introducing the work of Moustapha Safouan: a writing of letters—de lettresTine NørregaardChapter 8. The politics of hysteria—Safouan and the question of powerChristiane WellerChapter 9. Why the subject is not free?Michael Gerard PlastowChapter 10. For the love of Safouan: transference and identification in the Freudian SchoolDavid PereiraPart IV: Beyond organisation—real erotics of the wordChapter 11. A slice of the wordDavid PereiraChapter 12. Strange effectsShubha GokhaleChapter 13. Of words; their substance and seductionsDavid PereiraChapter 14. Beyond the word surface: reading Beckett’s Comment c’est/How It Is as real writingPeter GunnChapter 15. Beyond the paleMegan WilliamsChapter 16. The Winds: fragment of a possible novelSabina SpielreinPart V: Translation of Ou il y a symptôme et sinthome by Jean AllouchChapter 17. Introduction to the translation of Où il y a symptôme et sinthome by Jean Allouch Tine NørregaardChapter 18. Ou il y a symptôme et sinthomeJean AllouchChapter 19. Where there is symptom and sinthomeJean AllouchPart VI: Cartel on the translation of Où in y a symptôme et sinthomeChapter 20. Introducing the cartel on the work of translation of Où il y a symptôme et sinthome by Jean AllouchTine Nørregaard, Michael Gerard Plastow, and Megan WilliamsChapter 21. The plus one and the intersinthomatic of transferenceTine Nørregaard Chapter 22. DriftingMegan WilliamsChapter 23. There is no sexual relation, and the social bondMichael Gerard PlastowPart VII: Melbourne Seminars of Christian Fierens 2019Chapter 24. Introduction to four seminars by Christian FierensDebbie Plastow, Editor of the Fierens PapersChapter 25. Reality and truthChristian FierensChapter 26. Sexuality and narcissismChristian FierensChapter 27. Symptom and sinthomeChristian FierensChapter 28. Enjoyment and sexual disorientationChristian Fierens