Vol 37 (3) 2019
Resistance as a measure of the duration of the psychoanalytic cure – Dan Collins
Words still matter: Lacan and the role of the signifier in therapy today – Yael Goldman Baldwin
The mythification of memory: Freud, Lacan and Sebald’s Austerlitz – Eve Watson
From edible to oedipal: the case of jay – Kristen Hennessey
Mouth at rest: notes on silence as psychoanalytic technique – Chris Vanderwees
Suggestion and transference – Rolf Flor
The psychoanalyst knows how not to enjoy: technique versus style in the analytic act – Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez
Resistance as a measure of the duration of the psychoanalytic cure
The author considers the role of resistance in analysis and asks specifically if the resistance of the analysand can be considered a measure of the duration of analytic treatment. It is not in any objective sense, but several indications in Freud’s and Lacan’s work...
Words still matter: Lacan and the role of the signifier in therapy today
In 1966, Lacan wrote "On an Ex Post Facto Syllabary", a short rarely read essay that holds a key to what is radical and still important regarding what makes psychoanalysis relevant today, and that is the role of the signifier and the symbolic in mental health...
The mythification of memory: Freud, Lacan and Sebald’s Austerlitz
This paper explores the theme of memory and the process of remembering, linked to the inception of psychoanalysis and Freud’s work with his first hysterical patients which taught him that remembering, or rather, reminiscing, forms a crucial part of every analysis....
From edible to oedipal: the case of jay
This is the case of a five-year-old child who presented to treatment on a path to a psychotic structure. Coming to treatment largely unable to talk or play, and fixated on his experiences of sexual assault, this case follows the child’s treatment as he ultimately...
Mouth at rest: notes on silence as psychoanalytic technique
Psychoanalysis is a process that works with discourse, language, and speech. “Nothing takes place in psychoanalysis,” wrote Freud in his introductory lectures, “but an interchange of words between the patient and the analyst” (1916, p.17). Of course, Lacan also...
Suggestion and transference
Both Freud and Lacan distance themselves from any use of suggestion in analysis. Nevertheless, Lacan remarks in “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power” both that there is a connection between suggestion and transference and that Freud was...
The psychoanalyst knows how not to enjoy: technique versus style in the analytic act.
An analysand arrives to the first session curating words to describe his suffering and demonstrating in his very own way of speaking, silencing and moving, the linguistic structure that seems to afflict him. How does the analyst listen and choose to intervene? At...