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Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter. By Serge Leclaire; translated by Peggy Kamuf. Stanford University Press, 1998, 125 pp., $35.00 hardcover, $12.95 paperback.
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Edited by Dany Nobus. London: Other Press, 1998, 296 pp., $22.00
The Klein-Lacan Dialogues. Edited by Bernard Burgoyne and Mary Sullivan. London: Other Press, 1997, 238 pp., $18.95.
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A test for Wallerstein's question—One psychoanalysis or many?—is to review several Lacanian books at once. Finding one's bearings in Lacan-land is difficult enough, but one quickly discovers even here a plurality of universes.
The fogs of geographical and cultural remoteness have allowed these lands to be thought of as unitary, but Lacan's longtime right-hand man, Jacques Perrier, in his Swiftian Voyages Extraordinaires en Translacanie (1985), could take for granted the multi-insularity of the “Translacanian Archipelago,” so named with a knowing wink to the Gulag. Perrier, however, continued to consider Lacan a genius, and in a way he was. His “return to Freud” recast psychoanalysis as a “psychoanalytic discourse” tailored to the idola fori of the academy—mainly, to what went on in French academic circles in the fifties and sixties: the structuralist promise of an overarching formalization of knowledges