Since Lacan

Linda Clifton is an analyst and former Director of the Freudian school of Melbourne

Since Lacan, the transmission of psychoanalysis can consist neither of repeating the sayings of the great masters, nor of reinventing "psychoanalysis" as if it had never previously existed, nor of importing a given psychoanalysis into a new country or new problematics. All the papers of this book begin from a particular enigma of Lacanian discourse: a father who is a fiction; a clinic without any space to receive the patient, a speech reduced to an inaudible mumble; a visual art without any light. There are no solutions to these riddles, just a mapping to find one's way. The reader will be knotted in this reinvention of psychoanalysis.'- Dr Christian Fierens, psychoanalyst, member of Questionnement Psychanalytique, Association Freudienne de Belgique, and Association Lacanienne Internationale

• Logos -- Lacanian Discourse -- Incest, identity, and difference -- Lacan, Caracas station -- C’est à quel sujet? -- Father of function, fact, fable … and fiction -- Get knotted -- About psychoanalysis -- Anaesthesia -- From the Clinic -- The discomfort of psychoanalysis -- The wall of the body -- The gift of speech: beyond ambivalence -- The grammar of sex: verb or noun? -- What’s not home in homelessness? -- The death of Marat -- Psychoanalysis and the Child -- In the raw -- Psychoanalysis and the child: history, time, and the transformational formula—an introduction -- Psychoanalysis of the child: the bastard child of psychoanalysis -- The kangaroo rat man -- The transformational formula of myth -- Psychoanalysis and Art -- From erotic initiation to death -- No light, but rather darkness visible -- Snapped by the image: the inverted art of the photograph and the artifice of psychoanalysis -- The pearl of analysis -- The medieval voice