No. 16 (2008): Family and the Unconscious II

The family has changed, but what remains of it? Amidst contemporary social transformations, new parental configurations, and novel ways in which the law intervenes in interpersonal bonds, there is much talk of a "crisis" or the "end" of the family as an institution. Yet, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the family remains alive and continues to fulfill its structuring role.

In this 16th volume of the journal Stylus — a publication of the Association of Lacanian Field Forums (AFCL) — psychoanalysts and researchers examine the family not as a rigid biological or legal form, but as a construct of psychic reality and a site for the transmission of lack, desire, and the unconscious.

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Contents

Editorial
7 – Andréa Brunetto

Essays
13 – Joan Salinas-Rosés: Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The analyst’s desire?
23 – Gabriel Lombardi: Naming and clinical type
31 – Vera Pollo: Family voices

Critical Work on Concepts
45 – Colette Soler: Naming and contingency
53 – Zilda Machado: The family is alive!
67 – Bárbara Guatimosim: From filiation to noble bastardy: the royal lineage of desire

Direction of the Treatment
77 – Bernard Nominé: Love and symptom: the bonds of love and the knot of the symptom
89 – Lenita Pacheco Lemos Duarte: The children’s “guardian” in marital separations and divorces: whose choice is it?

Interview
105 – Andréa Brunetto interviews Manel Rebollo: The Lacanian Field in Spain

Book Reviews
125 – Didier Castanet: *Le Séminaire, livre XXIII: le sinthome*, by Jacques Lacan
131 – Andréa Brunetto: *O inconsciente a céu aberto na psicose* [The Unconscious in the Open Air in Psychosis], by Colette Soler
135 – Vera Pollo: *A subjetividade por vir – ensaios críticos sobre a voz obscena* [Subjectivity to Come – Critical Essays on the Obscene Voice], by Slavoj Žižek

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Stylus Publication Committee
Andréa Hortélio Fernandes
Alba Abreu Lima
Andréa Brunetto (coordinator)
Daniela Scheinkman-Chatelard
Maria Helena Martinho