Pub: LACANIAN INK 32.1 (2008).

Contents:

• "A Reading of the Seminar from an Other to the other IV" by J-A MILLER
• "The Other Side of Lacan" by J-A MILLER
• "The Son's Aleatory Identity in Today's World" by ALAIN BADIOU
• "The Image in the Fantasy" by LILIA MAHJOUB
• "Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan" by MASSIMO RECALCATI
• "Strange Foreign Bodies" by JEAN-LUC NANCY
• "Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian" by SLAVOJ ZIZEK
• "Cecily Brown Doug Aitken" by JOSEFINA AYERZA

Access the entire issue here: http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html.

Lippitt, John. "Hegel and the Chicken Suit." TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION March 31, 2008.

Zupancic, Alenka. The Odd One In: on Comedy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. This book, by one of the three Slovenian philosophers central to the Lacan-inspired Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, appears in a series called "Short Circuits". The other two - Slavoj Zizek and Mladen Dolar - are liberally cited, and the former contributes a foreword to the series in which he explains its name. A short circuit "occurs when there is a faulty connection in the network - faulty . . . from the standpoint of the network's smooth functioning". This makes short-circuiting "one of the best metaphors for a critical reading". By approaching various areas of inquiry from a Lacanian standpoint, we are told, we make them readable in a "totally new" and "disturbing" way. But the other, unmentioned, possibility is that a short circuit might plunge the reader into darkness, making it difficult to find one's way around. Such is the case, I fear, in several parts of this book. The reader relatively unfamiliar with concepts such as the Real and the Symbolic in their Lacanian-Zizekian modes isn't given much of a torch. . . . Read the whole review here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402170&c=1.

PUB: S: JOURNAL OF THE JAN VAN EYCK CIRCLE FOR LACANIAN IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE 1 (2008)

Articles:

• Bernard Baas "Pygmalion's Gaze" 4-14 (PDF )
• Thomas Brockelman "Missing the Point: Reading the Lacanian Subject through Perspective" 16-35 (PDF)
• Jonathan Kim-Reuter "Montaigne in the 'Garden of Earthly Delights': the Image of the Corps Morcelé in the Essays" 36-45 (PDF)
• Juliet Flower MacCannell "The Real Imaginary: Lacan's Joyce" 46-57 (PDF)

Dialogues:

• Gérard Wajcman "The Intimate Extorted, the Intimate Exposed" 58-77 (PDF)
• Lieven Jonckheere "The Politics of 'Atopia of the Intimate' in Contemporary Art: the View from Lacanian Psychoanalysis (a response to Gérard Wajcman)" 78-99 (PDF)

Book Reviews:

• Sigi Jöttkandt Sex" Bomb the Book: In(ter)sectal Wars of Reinscription in Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies" 100-117 (PDF)

The journal homepage is here: http://www.lineofbeauty.org/index.php/s/index.

Pollock, Andrew. "Review of Bruce Fink's FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE." METAPSYCHOLOGY ONLINE REVIEWS 12.1 (2008).

Fink, Bruce. Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: a Lacanian Approach for Practitioners. New York: Norton, 2007. Jacques Lacan's theory has had a surprisingly limited affect on American psychoanalytic thought, and almost no noticeable affect on how analysis is conducted in the United States. Lacan himself was openly contemptuous of American interpretations of Freud, and made pointed comments about the failings he saw in Ego Psychology, in particular. Even now, 26 years after his death, the ascendance of Relational psychoanalysis in America is strictly incompatible with Lacan's articulated understanding of what occurs during analysis. The result is that in America, Lacan is more often read in university literature courses than he is taught in therapeutic training programs, and American therapists have, for the most part, not had the benefit of engaging with his rich and varied contributions. Bruce Fink's new book, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: a Lacanian Approach for Practitioners, goes a long way toward providing the kind of systematic introduction to Lacanian technique that is sorely needed in the United States. Fink's book also manages to ground an introduction of Lacan's theory in rich descriptions of the analytic encounter. Along with Fink's earlier A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and his recent new translations of Lacan's seminal Ecrits, Fink's project redresses the unbalanced focus on a theoretical version of Lacan in America today. . . . Read the rest here: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4008.