CONTENTS

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS x

PREFACE x

Lionel Bailly

INTRODUCTION x

Lionel Bailly, David Lichtenstein & Sham Bailly

PART I: SOME HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

CHAPTER ONE

The Changing forms of a research programme x

Bernard Burgoyne

CHAPTER TWO

French Psychoanalyis and Lacan x

Sara Flanders

CHAPTER THREE

The Founding Act, the Cartel and the riddle of the PLUS ONE x

Cormac Gallagher

PART TWO: SOME CENTRAL CONCEPTS

CHAPTER FOUR

Lacan’s version of the Oedipus Complex x

Lionel Bailly

CHAPTER FIVE

Object a x

Alain Vanier

CHAPTER SIX

An Essay on Transitivism

Jean Berges and Gabriel Balbo x

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Logical Time of Diagnosis: Terms and Conditions of the Symptom

in the Lacanian Tradition x

Dany Nobus

PART THREE: SOME CLINICAL REFLECTIONS

CHAPTER EIGHT

The borderlines between psychiatry and psychoanalysis x

Nestor A. Braunstein

CHAPTER NINE

Two Affects: Love and Hate x

Colette Soler

CHAPTER TEN

The Desire Of The Analyst And Counter-Transference

From the mirror analyst to the desiring analyst x

Maurice Khoury

PART FOUR: BEYOND THE CLINIC

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The letter against literary interpretation: Lacan’s critique of literature x

Jean-Michel Rabate

CHAPTER TWELVE

A New Psychic Economy x

Charles Melman