Invention in the Real

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

'This collection of papers is a perfect demonstration of the Freudian School of Melbourne's vitality. It seeks to prove the idea that Lacan posited at the end of his life: the reinvention of psychoanalysis by someone who has dedicated his life to it (as the title of the first chapter by David Pereira makes explicit). Consequently, these papers provide the most decisive Freudian and Lacanian outcomes (clearly distinguished), which are applied in a practice that takes account of the historical and social sphere in which they evolve. The universality of the few theoretical statements makes sense if and only if these statements are confronted with subjective and cultural particularities. These particularities are felicitously present throughout the book, giving it a character that might be sought in vain in other publications.'- Guy Le Gaufey, analyst in Paris, former member of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris, co-founder of the first French Lacanian revue Littoral, and former director of the Ecole Lacanienne de PsychanalyseContributors: Jean Allouch, Madeline Andrews, Gabriel Balbo, Jean Berges, Linda Clifton, Gustavo Etkin, Peter Gunn, Rodney Kleiman, Tine Norregaard Arroyo, David Pereira, Michael Plastow, Christiane Weller, Oscar Zentner

• About the Editor and Contributors , LOGOS , Time and History , Must every psychoanalyst recapitulate the history of psychoanalysis in his own way? , Once upon a time , On Nachträglichkeit , Time out of number , The origin of language , The Lacanian Clinic Today , The necessity and impossibility of interpretation , Maltreating the individual , The child and seduction 1 , How to do a psychoanalytic clinic: a recipe for madness , The Gospel according to Saint Jacques , Psychoanalysis and the Child , Psychoanalysis and the child , The treatment setting: demand, transference and the contract with the parents and for their child , Some cases of “name of the father subject supposed of knowledge” , Father can't you see that I am burning?—interventions in the real of the parental couple , On Love and Knowledge , The promise of love , In the style of loving , The conduct of love in psychoanalysis , Analysis, The Arts and the Well Spoken , The Ob-scene , The jouissance of The Gambler , Freud and Faust , The Invention of Solitude—the invention of a style , The enigma of Rrose Selavy , The art of interpretation—drawing a line 1 , Death and Psychoanalysis , An architecture of death from Tanizaki to Mishima , Erotics of mourning in the time of dry death , Psychoanalysis in the hospital , Wallis Simpson and the three As , Death and psychoanalysis 1