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The love letter is an act of uprising that allows the passage from a border logic to a logic of the littoral, of the turn. Between knowledge and jouissance, the letter makes a littoral to leave the impasse of the demand for meaning and the mirage of the phallic. Through this passage, the love letter allows us to understand not only the function of the written word in the confrontation of the subject with the bar of his truth, but also the trajectory of the cure: from the letter in suffering in the transference to the love letter in the pass. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims at situating the relation between passion and knowledge on the basis of the three passions indicated by Lacan --ignorance, love, and hate. In this endeavor, it highlights the shape that hatred can assume in transference, as well as its development during analysis. To that effect, it makes a series of distinctions regarding the clinical manifestations of hate. The objective of these elaborations is to underline the effects of analysis on hatred and the impossibility of the emergence of separation hate as the concluding moment of the analytical experience. If hate leads to separation from the analyst, this does not entail the dismissal of the Other, but rather, the contrary: hate serves to make the Other exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a brief psychoanalytical inquiry into the passion of hate and its relation to desire, on the basis of clinical presentations carried out during hospital practice. It evaluates the development of said "affect" in the hysterical structure, mentioning the resources used by medicine to cover up or ignore the discovery of the unconscious. Furthermore, it provides examples through references to the analytical literature, as well as to excerpts from musical compositions or film stories. Finally, we leave in suspense the question that arises during intervention in transference, once the post-Freudian idealizing and schematic resource mentioned throughout the text is set aside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the principal conclusions regarding the genesis, delimitation and transformations of the passage to the act in Lacan. Specifically, the article looks at how Jacques Lacan treat s this concept in Seminar 14: The Logic of the Fantasy and Seminar 15: The Psychoanalytic Act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A symptom constitutes a compromise between a demand of the jouissance drive and something that acts as a law, preventing its realization. These symptoms speak, but they don't solve anything by themselves; however, they do allow for an attainment of the first subjective positions, and then give transference an opportunity to appear. Their formal wrapping, made of symbolic and imaginary elements, shelters a jouissance that stays limited in this way. Addictions are presented as a rejection of this functionality, but they also raise the question: Is it just the functionality's failure or a new formal wrapping? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]