Invention in the Real

Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne

Australian Psychoanalytical Writings, Volume 24, 2012

The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school, in applying, not a technique, but the Freudian method to their clinical practice, to their seminars, to their writing and to the functioning of the School itself. In pursuing a practice that seeks to avoid the inertia spoken of by Lacan, the contributors to this volume take the risk of encountering the impasses of the clinic today and the incompleteness of Lacanian theory with invention. Being marked by the residue of the psychoanalytic clinic they continue to work their transference to that clinic and to the texts of Freud and Lacan. Included in this volume is a paper by Oscar Zentner, founder of the School as well as translations of papers and extracts from books by analysts from overseas.

INVENTION IN THE REAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix

ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xi

LOGOS xv
Linda Clifton

ix - xv

PART I: TIME AND HISTORY

CHAPTER ONE
Must every psychoanalyst recapitulate the history of psychoanalysis in his own way?

David Pereira 3

CHAPTER TWO
Once upon a time
Michael Plastow 11

CHAPTER THREE
On Nachträglichkeit
Christiane Weller 21

CHAPTER FOUR
Time out of number
Peter Gunn 31

CHAPTER FIVE
The origin of language
Michael Plastow 41

PART II: THE LACANIAN CLINIC TODAY

CHAPTER SIX
The necessity and impossibility of interpretation
David Pereira 55

CHAPTER SEVEN
Maltreating the individual
Peter Gunn 61

CHAPTER EIGHT
The child and seduction
Michael Plastow 71

CHAPTER NINE
How to do a psychoanalytic clinic: a recipe for madness
Peter Gunn 79

CHAPTER TEN
The Gospel according to Saint Jacques
Rodney Kleiman 87

PART III: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CHILD

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Psychoanalysis and the child
Tine Norregaard Arroyo and Michael Plastow 99

CHAPTER TWELVE
The treatment setting: demand, transference and the contract with the parents and for their child
Jean Bergès and Gabriel Balbo 105

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Some cases of "name of the father subject supposed of knowledge"
Erik Porge 117

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Father can't you see that I am burning? —interventions in the real of the parental couple
Tine Norregaard Arroyo 125

PART V: ANALYSIS, THE ARTS AND THE WELL SPOKEN

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The Ob-scene
David Pereira 161

CHAPTER NINETEEN
The jouissance of The Gambler
Linda Clifton 171

CHAPTER TWENTY
Freud and Faust
Michael Plastow 185

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
The Invention of Solitude-the invention of a style
Tine Norregaard Arroyo 195

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
The enigma of Rrose Selavy
Madeline Andrews 207

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
The art of interpretation-drawing a line
David Pereira 221

PART VI: DEATH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
An architecture of death from Tanizaki to Mishima
Oscar Zentner 237

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
Erotics of mourning in the time of dry death
Jean Allouch 245

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
Psychoanalysis in the hospital
Gustavo Etkin 263

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
Wallis Simpson and the three As
Gustavo Etkin 269

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
Death and psychoanalysis
Gustavo Etkin 275