No. 12 (2006): What choices and impasses does the subject suffer from?

Freud forged the body of knowledge that is psychoanalysis by confronting the impasses of his clinical experience—an experience in which the "real" at stake reveals itself as something incurable, a radical "not-knowing" that drives both repetition and the very cause of desire. Far from any illusion of completeness or complementarity between the sexes, the analytic experience is structured by the artifice of transference and the temporal dimension of the act. It calls upon the subject—divided by language—to take an active stance regarding their own losses, impasses, and ethical choices in the face of the "discontent in civilization."

In this 12th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a biannual publication of the *Associação Fóruns do Campo Lacaniano* (AFCL)—the central inquiry is: "What are the choices and impasses from which the subject suffers?" Bringing together contributions from the IV Meeting of the EPFCL-Brazil and the II Latin American Meeting—which centered on the themes of sex, life, and death—psychoanalysts and researchers explore the symbolic determinations and contingencies of the *parlêtre* (the "speaking-being"). By linking a critique of capitalist discourse, logical time, the Oedipus complex, and sexuation to clinical impasses and the mechanism of the *passe*, this issue demonstrates how analysis operates from effect to cause, enabling the subject to confront the pitfalls of their existence and sustain a resolute desire.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
7 – Eliane Z. Schermann

Essays
13 – Carmen Gallano: An Other-subject: Is there a psychoanalytic subversion of the subject without the "Other" of capitalism?
32 – Jean-Jacques Gorog: The Subject’s Choice in Psychoanalytic Treatment
43 – Ana Laura Prates: The Unfathomable Decision of Being and Time
51 – Eliane Z. Schermann: The Subject’s Choice, or the Obstacle Upon Which Desire Stumbles

Critical Engagement with Concepts
65 – Beatriz Elena Maya Restrepo: Between Knowing and Being, ‘Knowing-How-to-Do’ as a Choice
73 – Ricardo Rojas: The Choice of the End
81 – Michele Roman Faria: The Constitution of the Subject and the Oedipus Complex
95 – Andréa Brunetto: The Banality of Evil and the Subject’s Choice in the Direction of Treatment

Direction of Treatment
105 – Nádia Afonso de Souza Martins: The Choice of Neurosis, or the Unfathomable Decision of Being: Impasses in the Clinical Work with the Subject
119 – Bárbara Guatimosim and Zilda Machado: Feminine Virility
125 – Lenita Pacheco Lemos Duarte: "Does Desire Burn? Does *Jouissance* Hurt?" A Feminine Question

Debate
145 – On the *Passe* within the EPFCL

Reviews
165 – Elisabete Thamer: *An Analysis with God: The Encounter Between Lacan and Kierkegaard*, by Yves Depelsenaire
169 – Vera Pollo: *Child Custody in Families in Conflict*, by Lenita Pacheco Lemos Duarte
172 – Robson de Freitas Pereira: *Vicissitudes of the Object*, by Marcus do Rio Teixeira

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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