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This book contains ten essays by participants of the semiannual Lacanian Clinical Forum, a very brief presentation of the history of the Forum, and an introduction by the chief organizer, John Muller.
Non-Lacanian analysts can learn from Lacan new ideas about the role of language in analysis, including the function of silence, and the function of the father in the formation or deformation of the unconscious. For understanding the function of language, the Lacanian Clinical Forum makes use of William Richardson's worldwide reputation as a scholar of Heidegger, whose theory of language inspired Lacan. I will concentrate on these two points in my review of the book.
In his introduction Muller borrows from Walter Benjamin's remarks about translation. Muller stresses the idea that for Benjamin any language partakes of the idea of a universal (pure) language, but any particular language can say and show only some aspect of what a universal (pure) language could say. Hence, a translator must start by becoming aware of the discrepancy between what the text in the original language was saying and what the original author might not have been able to say. Next,