Papers of
the Freudian School of Melbourne
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings
Volume 26
This volume gathers together the writings of the analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne and the Belgian analyst Christian Fierens, displaying the ongoing interrogation by the School of Lacanian psychoanalysis into its history, theories and practices.
Volume 25
It addresses the question of what difference Lacan's teaching has made in the field of psychoanalysis. The papers demonstrate the possibility of moving from the origin to originality in an antipodean Ξ΅ anti-oedipean place.
Volume 24
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.
Volume 23
No doubt the history of the psychoanalytic movement does not encourage many hopeful illusions for the future. Nonetheless the School, being well founded, has not foundered. After 30 years the future has arrived and is rapidly becoming the past.
Volume 22
The anguish of the erotic takes up what escapes the Freudian psyche, the Freudian fiction, reminding us, as Jorge Canteros writes, that: It was in human sexual nature that psychoanalysis encountered from the beginning something that escaped understanding.
Volume 21
In his work Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Freud, in commenting on the work of psychoanalysis, acknowledged that theorizing in psychoanalysis had the status of "phantasying".
Volume 20
The papers in the present volume continue to attest to a return to the fundamental questions of psychoanalysis as a practice of the signifier which touches on a limit, an impossible whose fundamental referent is to be situated in the field of the sexual, of the eroticβ¦
Volume 19
I founded The Freudian School of Melbourne in 1977. My intention since then has been clear: to speak psycho-analysis without concessions in order to recover the Freudian experience, namely, the subversion of the subject.
Volume 18
Freud revealed to us a fundamental Spaltung as the essential element of the experience of the clinic; an experience which led clinical psychoanalysis further and further from the promise of self-possession, the pursuit of happiness and of the goodβ¦
Volume 17
A man and a woman...who wants to know the truth? This volume of writing announces the 20th year of work β psychoanalytic work - of the Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
Volume 16
It may be said that Lacanian psychoanalysis emerges in the marking of a difference. The marking of a difference through which Lacan differentiates his working of the radicalism of the Freudian discovery from that of post- Freudianism, with its taste for populist appeal.
Volume 15
What do we understand by the failure of the functioning of Lacan's School? The School had grown, Lacan's Seminar was renowned, Lacanian theory was everywhere. It was not for the lack of diffusion of the theory that there was a failure of the functioning.
Volume 14
James Joyce puts into the mouth of Stephen Dedalus the question 'What's in a name?' β a question one hears being pondered in many places nowadays. The existence today of a Lacanian clinic of The Freudian School of Melbourne allows us, even requires us, to pose the question differently.
Volume 13
The present volume contains works which respond to this obligation to give account of the psychoanalytic experience. The papers by overseas analysts: Eric Porge and Joel Dor from France, and Gustavo Etkin, who visited and worked intensively with us, and Ivan CorrΓͺa from Brazilβ¦
Volume 12
Lacan and the Object in Psychoanalysis
Notwithstanding the difficulties in dating the new paradigm introduced by Lacan in the field of psychoanalysis, the conference given to the Sociét Française de Psychanalyse in 1953 on the registers of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real, worked as an impediment to any possible confusion between Freud and Lacan.
Volume 11
The meaning of Freud in German is jouissance. And we know that the speaking being finds it difficult to deal with jouissance. Freud, naming his discovery the unconscious, wrote sit venia verbo - li the word may be forgiven - as if knowing that the Name-of-the- Father is also the Father of the Name.
Volume 10
The formations of the unconscious: jokes, lapsus linguae, lapsus calami, bungled actions, dreams, symptoms, are that discarded, transient matter that proves at its best why there is ground to qualify the unconscious as Freudian.
Volume 9
In September 1987, to mark the tenth year of psychoanalytic work since its foundation in 1977, The Freudian School of Melbourne organized the First Australian Psychoanalytic Congress in Australia. The present volume contains the proceedings of this Congress.
Volume 8
"To take an analysis up to its end requires not to prejudge in any case or moment its result."
Volume 7
From 1979 to the present, the Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne have been transmitting the transference of psychoanalytic work "in the field opened by Freud (which) restores the cutting edge of its truth."
Volume 6
Freud discovered a new field, demarcated by the psychoanalytic discourse. However, this discourse in its turn, produced analysts. The difficulty is, to paraphrase Lacan, that the analyst is not particularly better equipped than others to avoid the effects of mass psychology.
Volume 5
"This is Freud's contribution. If it is still necessary to confirm it, we only have to notice how the technique of the transference is prepared β¦ Everything is done to efface a dual relation of fellow menβ¦β β Lacan
Volume 4
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.
Volume 3
This book continues the series of the first Australian psychoanalytic publication. The works included in the book are the result of the investigation within the school of what for us is psychoanalysis.
Volume 2
If in our first book we said that it was possible to know, for this our second book, our affirmation is that it is possible to learn. How can we then be open and generous in not closing our discourse, but in opening it. Between the thing, the word, the construction and the representation, today we produce,
Volume 1
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