No. 7 (2003): Versions of psychoanalytic praxis

Subjecting one’s own analysis to the operational framework it inaugurated entails grasping—within one’s theoretical-clinical elaboration—the ways to advance toward reclaiming the authentic reality of the unconscious, as experienced by a subject divided by language. Far from being a mere dogmatic application of doctrine, the act of writing in psychoanalysis constitutes a rigorous labor of transmission and mourning in the face of what cannot be said; here, the materiality of the "letter" shatters prior certainties and interrogates analytical practice regarding the treatment of the "real" and the manifestations of *jouissance*.

In this 7th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a biannual publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL) centered on the theme "Versions of Psychoanalytic Praxis"—analysts and researchers present essays, conceptual debates, and clinical cases that articulate the diversity of the analytical experience. This edition delves into formulations concerning the "end of analysis"—examined through the lenses of the mathematical transfinite and the poetic tragedy of Paul Claudel—as well as topological constructions (such as the Klein bottle), the discursive status of hysteria and psychoanalytic institutions, the intersections between clinical practice, rhetoric, and the epistemophilic drive, and the direction of treatment in cases of neurosis and psychosis, alongside readings of *Radiofonia* (Radio-phony).

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Contents

Editorial
5 – Bárbara Guatimosim

Essays
9 – Tânia Mara Costa Pinto: Terminable and Interminable Analysis I: The Transfinite
36 – Tânia Mara Costa Pinto: Terminable and Interminable Analysis II: A Journey Through the Trilogy of Paul Claudel
52 – Carlos Bermejo Mozas: A Parametric Logic Applied to the Klein Bottle: Alienation in the Narcissistic Topography and the Articulation of the Id-Unconscious
70 – Antonio Quinet: Hysterias

Critical Engagement with Concepts
87 – Luís F. G. Andrade: Psychoanalytic Institutions and Their Discourses
98 – Elisabete Thamer: Against Semantophilia: Lacan and Rhetoric
109 – Glória Justo: The Epistemophilic Drive in Freudian and Lacanian Theories
121 – Clícia Magalhães Pereira: Alcoholism: Questions Regarding the Symptom

Direction of the Treatment
129 – Sonia Borges: The Logic of Delirium
140 – Elisabeth da Rocha Miranda: A Case of Male Hysteria: Appearing to Be a Man or a Woman?
150 – Josefa Yuta Pech: A Look at Maria
159 – Eliane Z. Schermann: Rereading the Case of Dora Hysteria: Knowledge and Truth in the Direction of Treatment
171 – Lenita Pacheco Lemos Duarte: The Shift of Discourse in a Case of Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis
184 – Maria Helena Martinho: A Case of Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis in a Woman
196 – Marcia de Assis: The Hysterical Question Mid-Journey

Interview
207 – Regina Teixeira da Costa interviews Jairo Gerbase regarding Jacques Lacan’s *Radiofonia*

Reviews
219 – Clarice Gatto: *O Gozo en-cena: sobre o masoquismo e a mulher* [Jouissance Staged: On Masochism and the Woman], by Eliane Z. Schermann
222 – Gilberto Gobbato: *Antonin Artaud, réalité et poésie*, by Pierre Bruno

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Editorial Team
Bárbara Guatimosim (Coordinator)
Ângela Diniz Costa
Delma Gonçalves
Graça Pamplona