No. 8 (2004): Subject and Jouissance

Writing about clinical practice and interrogating various discursive forms entails confronting the contingency and the impossibility inherent in the act of writing itself. This is because *jouissance*—which is forbidden to the speaking being—resists total capture by the signifier, rendering failure a necessary condition for the process of elaboration. In psychoanalysis, the subject is not a substance endowed with specific qualities, but rather an effect determined by language. Yet, *jouissance*—real and unassimilable—manifests as pure effectivity within symptoms, revealing both the traces that language attempts to name and the non-signifiable portion that defines the unique mode of *jouissance* for each "speaking being" (*parlêtre*).

In this 8th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a biannual publication by the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL) dedicated to the theme "Subject and *Jouissance*"—psychoanalysts and researchers explore how clinical practice operates upon the real. Through theoretical essays on logical temporality and Borromean knot theory, critical reflections on science and capitalist discourse, and clinical investigations into pain, psychosomatic phenomena, hysteria, and obsessive neurosis, this issue examines the status of the body and the function of the symptom. In doing so, it upholds the possibility for the subject to take analytical responsibility for that which determines them.

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Contents

Editorial
7 – Angela Mucida

Essays
11 – Dominique Fingermann: The Temporality of the Subject
21 – Daniela Scheinkman Chatelard: The Scythe of Time
28 – Maria Célia Delgado de Carvalho: The Subject in Psychoanalysis
34 – Henry Krutzen: Subjective Circuit and Nodality
39 – Angela Mucida: The Subject Does Not Age: Psychoanalysis and Old Age

Critical Engagement with Concepts
55 – Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker: Belief in Psychoanalysis: Elements for a Conception of the Act
69 – Eliane Z. Schermann: The Body, Exile, and That Which *Père-severes* [Persists/Fathers-on]
84 – Vera Pollo: The Body Between Psychoanalysis and Science
97 – Elaine Starosta Foguel: Psychoanalysis and Pain: Where the Soul Is Concentrated

Direction of the Treatment
109 – Lenita Pacheco Lemos Duarte: The Compulsion to Repeat in Children’s Play
121 – Maria Helena Martinho: Versions of the Father in a Case of Obsessive Neurosis

Interview
137 – Ângela Mucida interviews Carmen Gallano: The Capitalist Discourse and Its Effects on the Subject and the Direction of the Treatment

Reviews
153 – Elisabeth da Rocha Miranda: *Hysterical Women*, by Vera Pollo
156 – Sonia Alberti: *The Mother-Daughter Relationship*, by Malvine Zalcberg
158 – Silvana Pessoa: *The Psychoanalytic Act* (a collection of texts from the 2nd Symposium of the Psychoanalytic Field)

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Editorial Team
Ângela Mucida (coordinator)
Delma Gonçalves
Graça Pamplona
Maria Helena Martinho