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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]

This paper is the result of a doctoral research on suicide in a journey that goes from Freud to Lacan, following the common thread of a question that does not presuppose the desire to live as natural. From the review and articulation of three concepts (acting out, passage to the act, and act) in Lacan's teaching, it makes a proposal divergent from the moral and psychopathologizing mantle that extends -even sometimes within psychoanalysis itself-over suicide. The limits of classification are crossed in order to unfold the surface towards and ethics of the suicidal act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of an accredited research in the National University of La Plata (Argentina) on the relationship between dream and act, and it is focused in Freud's paradigmatic dream. The work aims at showing that this dream had for Freud the value of an act. It is based on the difference established by Gabriel Lombardi between two types of auto-references, from which one of them is characteristic of the act, the only case in which, according to Lacan, the signifier is as close as it is possible to signify itself. To this end, a brief analysis of the biographical circumstances of the conception of this dream is made and some auto-references contained in the onirical text are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, from a theoretical review, aims at understanding the criminal act as a symbolic fact by taking as a reference Jacques Lacan's theory between 1954 and 1967, which considers the subject of the unconscious as part of a language structure. It also elaborates on the notions of language and speech as fundamental basis of the symbolic register. Hence, a clear status is given to the act from the point of view of the logic of signifier which, through speech, makes it possible to consider human actions as acts having significations that involve, in turn, desire and jouissance; these are notions from the Lacanian psychoanalysis and the main elements that constitute the subject's structure. Finally, it refers to the psychoanalytic clinical categories of passage to the act and acting out, thus allowing a possible comprehension and explanation of the phenomenon of crime by taking into account these two categories of the act, and illustrating it with the case of Althusser in order to punctuate both the logic of the criminal act and the basis of the so-called subjective responsibility. In conclusion, the criminal act, from the categories described of the act, is in relation to the chain of signifiers that, through desire and jouissance, marks the subjective position of the one who commits crime in his/her history as a subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1966 and 1968, Jacques Lacan resorted to different philosophical, mathematical, and logical supports in order to present in his Seminar some operations that have effects on the subjective constitution and that, at same time, allow to delineate the course of an analysis. This paper tries to reconstruct and analyze the main aspects of such operative scheme from the analysis of some classes from Seminars XIV, The Logic of Fantasy, and XV, The Psychoanalytic Act, as well as from a number of contemporary writings. For this purpose, we start from Lacan’s particular reading of the Cartesian cogito and then we tackle the operations proposed and their respective effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to highlight the ways in which human beings are capable of falling into the trap of aggressiveness and the mechanisms that can be implemented to prevent it. Lacan's concept of acting out [passage à l'acte] establishes an essential way to address this problem, as well as a possible solution based on changing the relationship of the subject to the cause of his desire. We have chosen an example that illustrates this concept: the novel of Japanese writer Mishima, called The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Following this, we attempt to show the possible ways out in relation to the acting out, for those who make the choice of the experience of psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The starting point of this article is the Lacanian reading of Hamlet in Desire and its interpretation, which describes the function of mourning as a fundamental operation: cardinal support of the act. From there, it is recognized that the acting out of the mourning can lead to the initiation of an analysis, as the famous case of M. Little's Frieda shows. After some general considerations regarding mourning and making explicit some of the elements of that reading, the article analyzes the aforementioned case in order to clarify a clinical sequence that makes it possible to formulate a hypothesis: mourning is not necessarily the ending operation of an analysis; it may be its beginning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]