No. 13 (2006): Jouissance: modalities and paradoxes

Although psychoanalysis initially established the fundamental concepts of the unconscious, repetition, transference, and drive, the teaching of Jacques Lacan elevated the notion of *jouissance* (enjoyment) to the status of a concept and a distinct operational field, raising the logic of this incalculable aspect of existence to an authentic science of the real. Far from being reduced to mere mortification through language, the signifier also functions as a cause of *jouissance*, confronting the speaking being with the contingency of the body-as-drive, the excess of life, and an incurable loss that resists any attempt at total symbolization.

In this 13th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a biannual publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL) centered on the theme "Jouissance: Modalities and Paradoxes"—psychoanalysts and researchers examine the manifestations of this irreducible real. By linking conceptual debate with classical tragedy, literature, issues of gender and sexuation, as well as the direction of the treatment and the *passe*, this edition explores *jouissance* through its clinical paradoxes—ranging from psychosomatic phenomenology and the obsessive symptom to identification with the *sinthome* and the ethics of desire in act.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
7 – Eliane Z. Schermann

Essays
15 – Colette Soler: What You Cannot Choose
27 – Sidi Askofaré: Identification with the Symptom
45 – Eléonore Pardo: The Question of the Gaze: Subjectivity and Capitalist Discourse

Critical Engagement with Concepts
57 – Pascale Macary-Garipuy and Michel Lapeyre: Two or Three Things About Gender, Sexuation, and *Jouissance*
71 – Moisés de Andrade Junior: *Moira* in Psychoanalysis: *Jouissance*, Repetition, and the Analyst’s Desire in Act
81 – Fábio Santos Bispo: On Modes of *Jouissance*: Mysticism, Writing, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
91 – Ângela Mucida: Menopause, Excess Libido, and *Jouissance*
103 – Maria Carolina Bellico Fonseca: The Psychosomatic Phenomenon from the Perspective of *Jouissance*

Direction of the Treatment
113 – Luis Izcovich: From a Preliminary Question to Any Possible Clinical Approach to *Suppléance* (Substitution/Supplementation)
122 – Eliane Z. Schermann: Surprised, He Laughs! The Experience of the Object *a* in Obsessive Neurosis
132 – François Morel: Suicide and the Passage to the Act

Interview
145 – Christian Dunker interviews Marc Strauss: What Is the State of the *Passe* in the School Today?

Reviews
157 – Nina Virginia de Araújo Leite: *House of the Sleeping Beauties*, by Yasunari Kawabata
160 – Ida Freitas: Introduction to the book *Anguish* (*Angústia*)
165 – Clarice Gatto: Hysteria or Paranoia?, by Sol Aparicio

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