Book Review Editor’s Note

In this Book Review Section, we offer five books that are diverse in scope and reflect a range of interests in our field, from the clinical to the applied use of psychoanalysis. On the clinical side, the ever-present interest in post-Kleinian studies has produced two recent additions, one by Robert Hinshelwood on the work of Herbert Rosenfeld, reviewed by Franco de Masi, and the other by Rodrigo Barahona on the work of Wilfred Bion and André Green, reviewed by Joseph Giardino and discussed separately in Neal Vorus’s Editor’s Note. The clinical and applied theorizing of two prominent Lacanian scholars are also featured in this section. Arthur Fox reviews Darien Leader’s book on jouissance and Iuri Conceicao discusses Stijn Vanheule’s study of the treatment of psychosis. Cradling the clinical and applied realms of our field is Jamieson Webster’s meditation on the psychoanalytic implications of breathing, reviewed by Sofia Di Gironimo.

Arthur Fox opens his review of Darian Leader’s work on Lacan’s concept of jouissance by calling out the relative absence of theorizing on auto-eroticism in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. The one-person nature of today’s sexuality, due in large part to the digital age, is an irony in the face of this absence. Today’s autoeroticism, however, may be fruitfully thought about through Lacanian formulations of the relationship between jouissance and symbolic castration. Fox details how Leader redefines for the reader Lacan’s original concept of jouissance, which he believes has been watered down over time in the psychoanalytic literature. In his book, Leader attempts to get to the elusive nugget inside Lacan’s enigmatic idea, one that carries practical and clinical implications for our patients and for society. Tolerance for limits

and loss as well as the psychically organizing principles that result are what are at stake. Fox however is mixed o