Vol 40 (4) 2022
INCANBESCENT ALQUADETS: ERRANT LANGUAGE POETICS Annie G. Rogers
TILTING AT A METONYMIC PROLIFERATION OF SYMPTOMATIC WINDMILLS:
THE MATTER WITH SPEECH, AND ANALOGOUS READINGS OF FREUD AND HEGEL BY WAY OF LACAN Casey Butcher
HOW THE LETTER WORKS: LACAN AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORICAL THEORY Calum Matheson
PLINY, SOCRATES, LACAN: DIALOGICAL RESPONSES TO TYRANNICAL AUTHORITY Holly Haynes
THE USE AND ABUSE OF SUBSTANCES OF DESIRE Ben Muratovic & Elena Petrovska
AUTHORIAL RIGHTS AND THE CULTURAL ECONOMY OF MADNESS Concetta Principe
BETWEEN CONTENTEDNESS AND DISCONTENT: REASSESSING RESISTANCE AT WORK Fanis Lyrintzis
OBJET A AND THE PASS IN THE SCHOOL OF LACAN Michael McAndrew
OBJET A AND THE PASS IN THE SCHOOL OF LACAN
Summary: In the ‘Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the psychoanalyst of the School’, Lacan first laid out the procedure of the Pass; to be practiced in the School he founded, L’École Française de Psychanalyse. The founding text of Lacan’s School states that the...
BETWEEN CONTENTEDNESS AND DISCONTENT: REASSESSING RESISTANCE AT WORK
Summary: In contemporary research of low-skilled immigrant workers, scholars have highlighted concepts like precarity, exploitation, and racism as key locus of problematisation. Furthermore, the way they influence and relate with workers’ subjectivity, affect and...
AUTHORIAL RIGHTS AND THE CULTURAL ECONOMY OF MADNESS
Summary: This paper centers on representations of madness, and specifically, the authorial role of those representations, asking the question: are authors limited to representing their own mental health in their literary projects? Critics of The Curious Incident of...
THE USE AND ABUSE OF SUBSTANCES OF DESIRE
Summary: This paper aims to discuss substance use and abuse as falling beyond the pleasure principal and the deficiencies of CBT in the treatment of substance use disorders. As we continue to ponder the beginning and ending of a pandemic, lurking close behind, is the...
PLINY, SOCRATES, LACAN: DIALOGICAL RESPONSES TO TYRANNICAL AUTHORITY
Summary: A letter to Tacitus from Pliny the Younger discusses length and brevity in forensic oratory. Pliny appears to argue in favor of length, but the letter’s deliberate ambiguities illuminate his larger theme as the responsibility of judicial rhetoric to shape the...
HOW THE LETTER WORKS: LACAN AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORICAL THEORY
Summary: Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory prominently features metaphor and metonymy as analytic concepts, especially in its theory of psychosis. This essay suggests that propriety, or decorum, might broaden the Lacanian engagement with the field of rhetoric and...
TILTING AT A METONYMIC PROLIFERATION OF SYMPTOMATIC WINDMILLS: THE MATTER WITH SPEECH, AND ANALOGOUS READINGS OF FREUD AND HEGEL BY WAY OF LACAN
Summary: The first section of this paper traces, in brief, a conceptual evolution of psychoanalysis from its Freudian foundation in 19th century empirical science to Lacan’s reformulation of psychoanalytic method, based in part on mid-20th century structural...
INCANBESCENT ALQUADETS: ERRANT LANGUAGE POETICS
Summary: This paper explores an array of errant language experiences in relation to psychoanalysis and the unconscious, such as word play with signifiers at the end of analysis, an accident in printmaking as a source of new writing, and, with respect to the psychotic...