Marks of a Psychoanalysis

Luis Izcovich is a psychoanalyst, training psychiatrist, Doctor of Psychoanalysis (Paris VIII) and member of the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field and of its School of psychoanalysis, the SPFLF, of which he is one of its founding members. He has taught in the Department of Psychoanalysis of the University of Paris VIII, currently teaches in the College of the Psychoanalytic Clinic of Paris, and practises psychoanalysis in Paris.

'Strange as the word "mark" may be in the context of psychoanalysis, Izcovich employs it to ask (and answer) one of the most challenging and important questions: How does one know that someone has been through an analysis? Avoiding all simplistic responses, he takes the reader into a largely uncharted territory, where symptoms give way to desire, and where desire is bound up with subjective time. As an unprecedented exploration of psychoanalytic markers and marks, this book is nothing but a landmark and, as such, truly indispensable.'--Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, and chair of the Freud Museum London

• Introduction , The Mark of Time , Time and the unconscious , Borges, Lacan, poetry, time , Haste and exit , The moments to conclude , The Mark of the Symptom , The necessary symptom , What holds together , Lapsus of the knot , The writing of the symptom , The Mark of Separation , The clinic of limits , How did Winnicott analyse? , Ferenczi or the effaced trauma , Identity and separation , The mark of the father , The Effective Mark , The being of jouissance , Scraps of discourse , The sense of the sense-less , Grimaces of the real or the marks of repetition , Letter and nomination , The Mark of the Desire of the Analyst , The true journey , The marks of interpretation , The desire of the analyst or the mark of gay sçavoir , Unprecedented satisfaction or the mark of the ending , The desire of the analyst and absolute difference , Postscript