No. 10 (2005): Knowing-how-to-deal with the real of clinical practice

In *The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy* (1910), Freud emphasized that psychoanalysis must address the problems arising from the discontent within civilization in any given era, seeking a "know-how" (*savoir-faire*) that acknowledges and engages with the "real" involved, in order to keep its clinical practice current. Confronted with the irreducible manifestations of the symptom, the impact of trauma, and the emergence of anxiety—an exceptional affect that does not deceive and remains tethered to the "real"—psychoanalytic practice rejects hegemonic and normalizing responses. Instead, it upholds the function of transference to guide the subject toward the elaboration of their suffering and the delineation of their being-of-jouissance (*être de jouissance*).

In this 10th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a biannual publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL)—dedicated to the theme "Know-how with the 'real' in clinical practice," psychoanalysts and researchers explore the ethical and practical challenges involved in conducting the analytic cure. Through lectures, theoretical articles, clinical discussions, and dialogues with the field of art, this issue examines the trajectories of anxiety, fantasy, and the *objet petit a*. It delves into how the "real" is addressed within psychosomatic conditions, the vicissitudes of hysteria, anorexia, and alcoholism, as well as the transmission and formalization of the analytic apparatus.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
7 – Angela Mucida

Essays
13 – Colette Soler: Anxiety, an Affect of Exception
24 – Daniela Scheinkman Chatelard: On *Troumatisme* (Traumatism)
31 – Eliane Z. Schermann: Anxiety and Fantasy: The Overflow of the Real into the Imaginary
42 – Maria Célia Delgado de Carvalho: The Function of Anxiety in Analysis

Critical Work on Concepts
51 – Bernard Nominé: Fantasy and Its Relation to Trauma
60 – Christian Demoulin: Creating Fiction – The Fictionalization of Trauma
69 – Clícia Magalhães Pereira: Freudian Considerations on Alcoholism

Direction of the Treatment
83 – Carmen Gallano: The Enigma of the Cure—Through Transference—of Certain Bodily Afflictions
96 – Célia Virgínia da Silva do Amaral: Trauma and the Screen Memory
103 – Maria Helena Martinho: A Miscarriage of Nature: Transference and the Subject’s Implication in Fantasy
115 – François Morel: Hysteria and Anorexia: Two Discourses?

Interview
129 – Angela Mucida interviews Sérgio Fingerman: Artistic Creation and Its Relation to the Impossible

Book Reviews
139 – Oscar Cirino: *The Subject Does Not Age* – Psychoanalysis and Old Age, by Angela Mucida
142 – Jairo Gerbase: *The Subject of Psychoanalysis*, edited by Sônia Campos Magalhães
147 – Arlindo Pimenta: *Around the Cartel*, edited by Bárbara Guatimosin

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Editorial Team
Angela Mucida (Coordinator)
Ângela Diniz Costel
Dominique Fingermann
Eliane Z. Schermann