On the desire of the analyst - Bernardino Horne
In this paper, Bernardino Horne starts from the challenge J.-A. Miller points out for the analyst’s position: “how is it possible to know, in the analytical experience, not to be an unconscious subject?” He demonstrates how the position of object a in the dominant place of the analytic discourse – a characteristic of the treatment direction in the Lacanian Orientation – is sustained by the desire of the analyst, and considers different Lacanian conceptions about such desire.


How to recompose the Names-of-the-Father? -
Éric Laurent
In this paper, Éric Laurent presents an overview of some misunderstandings of the Lacanian Name-of-the-Father concept. He also analyses the attempts they inspire to tackle the decline of the paternal function through recomposition of the father in contemporary families. Laurent argues that Lacan’s “Names-of-the-father”, differently, is a tool that can be used for the “very joint of the feeling of being alive” and “in language, the tool through which one may cross the infinite coastline between something of jouissance, on the one hand, and on the other hand, what can be said from the experience of a sexuated live being.”