From (Re)-turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies Winter 2003, Volume 1 The name of the journal—(Re)-turn: Journal of Lacanian Studies—signifies a number of things, Lacan’s return to Freud, the transformations in Lacan’s own work, as well as the return to the first American Lacanian journal, Newsletter of the Freudian Field (1987-1994). For Lacan, return has been a particularly important term, a psychoanalytic concept based on the premise that every juncture, Subscribe  | You get full access to all articles online and a hard copy mailed to your home or office twice a year. |
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every point of understanding or knowledge, is not only present in conscious life, but is represented precisely as a return where the conscious intersects with the unconscious. This is the place around which Lacanian studies must revolve. This intersection is explored by the authors of this first issue on psychosis. For example, Jacques Alain Miller studies the intersection of normative discourse and psychotic language in “The Clinic of Irony.” Roger Wartel talks about the intersection between hysteria and psychosis. Roland Broca takes up the intersection between psychosis and social examples of mass madness. Robert and Rosine LeFort examine the intersections among psychosis, autism, and retardation.The Editors | |
