No. 11 (2005): The subject’s choices in sex, life, and death

From the perspective of psychoanalysis, positing the existence of choices in life, sex, and death introduces an originary and structural choice: the "forced choice," in which any option entails an inevitable loss. Far from modern illusions of "free will," the life of a speaking being is marked by the cut of language—"your money or your life"—revealing that the human condition is constituted through loss and submission to the signifier of the Other, a state in which anxiety emerges as the affect that does not deceive.

In this 11th volume of the journal *Stylus*—a publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL) centered on the theme "The Subject’s Choices in Sex, Life, and Death"—psychoanalysts and researchers examine the impasses and determinations that permeate contemporary subjectivity. Through lectures, clinical essays, and explorations of topics such as old age, euthanasia, substance dependence, and the direction of treatment, this edition delves into the differential clinical study of anxiety, the analytic act, and the ways in which the subject responds to the "real" within social bonds and civilization.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
7 – Angela Mucida

Essays
13 – Colette Soler: A Shift in the Binding of Anxiety
26 – Colette Soler: A Differential Clinic of Anxiety – A Critical Engagement with Concepts

Critical Engagement with Concepts
47 – Ângela Mucida: Old Age: From Destiny to Choices—A Classic Case of Euthanasia
58 – Marie-Jean Sauret: The Choices of Subjectivity in Our Era
73 – Bernard Nominé: The Analytic Act, the Analysand’s Task, and "Analytic Doing"

Direction of the Treatment
85 – Ângela Diniz Costa: What Kind of Choice Is This?
92 – Fulvio Marone: The Wolf Man—Between the Anal Object and the Gaze
105 – Maria Helena Martinho: Choosing Meaning: The Case of Ana

Interview
119 – Oscar Cirino interviews Fernando Grossi: The Choice of Drugs

Reviews
131 – Sonia Alberti: *Charcot’s Lesson*, by Antonio Quinet
134 – Leandro Alves Rodrigues dos Santos: *The Day Lacan Adopted Me: My Analysis with Lacan*, by Gerard Haddad
137 – Paulo Marcos Rona: *Because of the Worst*, by Dominique Fingermann and Mauro Mendes

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Editorial Team
Ângela Mucida (Coordinator)
Ângela Diniz Costa
Dominique Fingermann
Eliane Z. Schennann