Author Archives: Eugénie Austin

Milner’s Mallarmé

PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 3 Papers   Milner’s Mallarmé Robert Boncardo Download this paper here   Abstract: This article offers a brief overview of Jean-Claude Milner’s reading of Stéphane Mallarmé. It hones in on the two tendencies Milner identifies in Mallarmé’s work — one utopian, the other nihilist — and compares Milner’s reading to those of his […]

On linguistry and homophony

PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 3 Papers   On linguistry and homophony Russell Grigg Download this paper here   Jean-Claude Milner quotes an extraordinary passage from Lacan. It is a passage from “La troisième”, which Lacan delivered to the 7th Congress of the Freudian School of Paris in Rome in 1974: It is lalangue that makes it possible […]

Science’s man does not exist: Psychoanalysis, scientism, and the structuralist project

PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 3 Papers   Science’s man does not exist: Psychoanalysis, scientism, and the structuralist project David Ferraro Download this paper here   Jean-Claude Milner’s contributions to the Cahiers pour l’Analyse, and, in particular, his paper entitled ‘The Point of the Signifier’ (2012a) were fruits of the hyperstructuralist project that was prominent in the journal. […]

“Au tombeau” with Mallarmé, Milner and Nobokov

PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 3 Papers   “Au tombeau” with Mallarmé, Milner and Nobokov Sigi Jöttkandt Download this paper here   The padograph is a writing instrument invented by the father of Padukgrad’s totalitarian leader in the novel, Bend Sinister – Vladimir Nabokov’s thinly veiled parody of the Soviet Union published in 1947. An individualized, personalized sort […]

Editorial Introduction to Volume 3

PsychoanalysisLacan is the free, online journal of the Lacan Circle of Australia We publish contemporary psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation   Volume 3: Jean-Claude Milner and Other Matters   On 4 July 2017 Jean-Claude Milner participated in a colloquium in Melbourne held to mark his significant contribution to a number of fields. Milner is a distinguished French […]

What It’s Like To Be Too Much

PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 2 Poems   What it’s like to be too much Dominique Hecq   Download this poem here   after Patricia Smith   First of all it’s having your first smoke at three It’s pinching cherry lollies from your mother’s cupboard It’s answering back and biting your best friend It’s eavesdropping and blushing and […]