THIS PAPER PURPORTS TO BE a clinical application of the theories of Jacques Lacan. Such an enterprise is certainly of considerable interest; and that the author found concepts in Lacan's writings that assisted him in handling a difficult psychotherapy is not surprising.

For my part, having been trained in psychoanalysis at the Freudian School of Paris, the paramount question concerns the transmission of psychoanalysis.

Lacan has emphasized the centrality of speech in the analytic cure. Corollary to this proposition is the fact that psychoanalysis cannot be transmitted uniquely through the written word. Since Dr. Gorney's paper derives its clinical application from what is written in books, I think it highly unlikely that its approach can in