Sit Venia Verbo

Forgive the Word; Lacan's commentary on Freud's phrase "Sit Venia Verbo"

Cartel reading of ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis’, delivered to colleagues of the Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ISLP) at the June 2024 study day in Dublin.

Psychoanalysis Upside Down

Signorelli The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

A reading of weeks 4 & 5 in the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 17, with reference to Georges Politzer’s Critique of the Foundations of Psychology

The Purloined Letter

Poe, La Lettre volée

Revisiting Poe’s Purloined Letter through the lens of Lacan’s seminar and Melman’s paper in The Letter.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Paper delivered over Zoom to ISLP Inter-Cartel Day 2021 interrogating the “non-pudes errent” riddle in Lacan’s 21st seminar ‘Les-Non-Dupes-Errent’.

The Sound of Silence

Silence Pat Collins

Considerations on Roman Jakobson’s “mystery of the idea embodied in phonic matter, the mystery of the word”

Strange Dreams

Cormac McCarthy Strange Dreams Unconscious Kekulé Problem

“the unconscious has no pencil or notepad and certainly no eraser” – Cormac McCarthy