We are delighted to publish Volume 13, Number 1, comprising eight original articles, and three book review essays. The editors hope this issue provides, as ever, material for reflection, debate, and continued inquiry into the questions that animate our field. We begin our issue with Ricardo Luna’s article, Subject of Truth, Object of Power: The Emergence of the Analytic Training Disposi…

Summary: This paper offers a Foucauldian genealogy of psychoanalytic training analysis, uncovering the power dynamics that structure its institutional logic—what is here conceptualized as the analytic training dispositif. Training begins with the candidate’s renunciation of their own authority under the power/knowledge of their instructor and institution. The paper critically examines h…

Summary: The question of whether thinking can remain connected to a thinker has gained renewed urgency as artificial intelligence diffuses into intellectual and clinical practices. Recent psychoanalytic engagements with this question have examined the structural affinities between AI and unconscious formations. This paper approaches the question from a different vertex: not the structur…

Summary: The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) across all areas of mental health has outpaced psychoanalytic reflection, leaving conceptual and theoretical work on AI scattered across disparate literatures and largely unintegrated. This critical narrative review selectively integrates foundational psychoanalytic theories into critical dialogue alongside empirical findings …

Summary: Across the contemporary clinical imaginary, techniques oriented toward regulation and somatic access are often framed as offering more direct contact with symptoms and their conditions of emergence than analytic speech. This paper argues that such frameworks do not abandon linguistic models of subjectivity but reconfigure them, displacing speech while shifting its structuring f…

Abstract: Does neuropsychoanalysis reduce psychoanalysis to simple psychologisms? Is the neuropsychoanalytic subject firm in its affective ground, reliably guided by emotion? Can the neuropsychoanalytic subject overcome the repetition compulsion and seamlessly adapt? Is such a psychologized subject not necessarily interpellated by neuroscientific discourse? Does dialogue with neuroscien…

Summary: Lacanians frequently dismiss the neurological dimension of Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology as metaphorical language (and neuronal baggage) in which Freud developed properly psychoanalytic concepts. Such criticisms fuel rejections of any viable relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. It is therefore of considerable importance to consider Lacan’s own rem…

Summary: While Lacan’s claim regarding the “unanalysable” nature of Japanese has been debated for several decades, this article does not seek merely to reaffirm that psychoanalysis is practised in Japanese contexts—a point that is by now well established. Instead, it advances a theoretical argument about analytic listening by examining how unconscious processes are articulated under spe…

Summary: This essay examines Paul Celan’s Frankfurt, September (1965), a transitional work that confronts the politics of literary reception in postwar Germany. Written during Celan’s engagement with S. Fischer Verlag and amid tensions over the commodification of Jewish and psychoanalytic legacies, the poem stages a disruption of the shared perceptual order. Through its fractured syntax…

Summary: This review examines the book Stella do Patrocínio: Falatório/Chatter, edited by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, as an ethical, political, and archival intervention into the conditions under which Stella do Patrocínio’s voice has been historically heard and silenced. Situating her falatório, translated in the book as chatter, within the racialized and disciplinary framework o…

In the 2012 bestseller, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, Pamela Druckerman, an American writer living in Paris and navigating the gulf of differences between parenting in France and the US, wonders how and why French parents seemingly follow a unified approach to childrearing. She portrays American parents as overrun with contradictory phil…

I can’t tell if it was entirely from within the text itself or from my acquaintance with Dr. Gorelick, but I confess that I read, in The Unwritten Enlightenment, a desire to be read closely by clinicians while remaining, itself, a book of literary criticism. In his dense and evocative introduction, Gorelick insists repeatedly on the specificity of his use of analogy between the distinct…