:: International Lacanian Review ::

Improvisation on "Rerum Novarum" - Jacques-Alain Miller
Jacques-Alain Miller recalls the revolution caused in the Christian Church by Rerum Novarum encyclical and encourages psychoanalysts to renew psychoanalysis. As he states: "[…] Psychoanalysis is going to have to accomplish its Rerum Novarum […] There is a historical tendency that must be interpreted, in order to be slightly 'ahead of the curve', as the Americans say".

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."

Other Articles:
On the desire of the analyst - Bernardino Horne
Introducing the symptom - Thomas Svolos

Essay:
Ken Park – The helplessness, beyond castration anxiety - Elisa Alvarenga

Fifth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis
July 13- 17, 2006
Rome, Italy