No. 14 (2007): Love, desire, and pleasure

Drawing upon a privileged dialogue with art to interrogate the reality of the human condition, psychoanalysis confronts the vicissitudes of "being-for-sex" and the structural impasses of the life of the drives. Far from being restricted to a merely imaginary grasp of relationships, the analytical experience invites a rigorous reflection on the mystery of femininity and the articulations between love, desire, and *jouissance*—examining that which escapes phallic logic and reveals the power of creation and *pathos*.

In this 14th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL) centered on the theme "Love, Desire, and *Jouissance*"—psychoanalysts and researchers explore the resonances of "Other *jouissance*," the disjunction between love and desire, and the sexual reality of the unconscious. Through dialogues with literature and cinema, conceptual elaborations, and explorations of clinical practice and the *passe*, this edition examines the subject’s traversal within analysis, as well as the implications of the inconsistency of the Other for theory, practice, and the School itself.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
7 – Andréa Brunetto

Essays
11 – Maria Anita Carneiro Ribeiro: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
17 – Andréa Hortélio Fernandes: How Psychoanalysis Addresses Questions of Love
27 – Maria Helena Martinho: André Gide, Between Love, Desire, and *Jouissance*
39 – Daniela Scheinkman-Chatelard: *Jouissance* and Subjective Position: Some Considerations Based on the Novel *The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein*

Critical Engagement with Concepts
49 – Antonio Quinet: Tragiorgy: The Tragic *Jouissance* of Creation and Enthusiasm
65 – Sonia Alberti: The Good That Can Be Extracted from *Jouissance*
77 – Jairo Gerbase: The Signs of Discourses
93 – Sidi Askofaré: Love Demetaphorized
105 – Zilda Machado: The Subject’s Path in Analysis
115 – Bárbara Guatimozim: Love, Desire, and *Jouissance* in the Analytic Function

Direction of the Treatment
127 – Elisabeth Rocha Miranda: The Names-of-the-Father and Feminine *Jouissance*
137 – Rainer Melo: What Does It Mean to Be a Mother?

Debate: The Pass
149 – Dominique Fingermann: The moment of the pass
163 – Beatriz Oliveira: Between testimony and transmission: the place of the passer
171 – Silvia R. R. Fontes Franco: On the experience of the pass

Book Reviews
179 – Márcia Polido: *Legal Psychology: A Place for Absent Words*, by Alba Abreu Lima
183 – Juliana da Silva Monteiro: *The Concept of the Object in Psychoanalysis: From Phenomenon to Writing*, by Daniela Scheinkman-Chatelard

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Editorial Team
Eliane Z. Schermann (coordinator)
Ângela Diniz Costa
Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker
Daniela Scheinkman-Chatelard
Sonia Maria Gani Campos Magalhães