The Psychoanalytical Notebooks is a journal which aims to reflect and develop the Lacanian orientation in the English-speaking world as well as demonstrate the continuing work of the London Society of the NLS. Each issue has been devoted to a specific theme. It opens with a lead article and is followed by commentaries and contributions from the members of the School and LS-NLS.

Brief Encounters

Psychoanalytical Notebooks 31, 2016

Editorial, Roger Litten

Political

Judith Miller, The Next Stage of PIPOL

Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Ten Axioms

Jean-Daniel Matet, New Relations to the Clinic and to Interpretation

Francisco Hugo Freda, “The Way of the World”

Jacques-Alain Miller, Towards PIPOL 4

Social

Manuel Fernández Blanco, Citizen-Symptom

Bernard Porcheret, CPCTs: A Political Initiative Against Segregation

Vicente Palomera, Actuality of Rapid Therapeutic Effects

Philip La Sagna, From Isolation to Solitude

Dominique Laurent, The Demand for Symptomatic Desegregation

Monica Marin, Interpretative event

Xavier Esqué, The Future Commands the Present, A Reading of the CPCT Experience

Francisco Hugo Freda, Three Questions for Francisco-Hugo Freda, First Director of the CPCT

Catherine Lazarus-Matet, Poetry as Treatment for the Precariousness of Being

Clinical

Lilia Mahjoub, Overture

Pascale Fari, Paying to speak?

Nicolas Jude, “I am the Fearful One in the Family”

Claude Quenardel, A Solution to Emptiness

Beatriz Gonzalez, A Piece Missing from the Puzzle

Liliana Salazar Redon, A Dry Heart

Laura Sokolowsky, The Woman-with-Languages

Pierre Naveau, The Mystery of the Speaking Body

René Rasmussen, The Concert of the Real: Paul Celan and his “Todesfuge”

Poetry Rubric, David Berridge