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There is surely cause to celebrate Judith Gurewich's enthusiasm and The Other Press's publishing commitment to enriching the English-speaking psychoanalytic culture in their launch of The Lacanian Clinical Field Series, the first four titles of which are under review here. Though none of the four titles are breathtaking in their own rights, as a whole they constitute an essential addition to any psychoanalytic library, especially those engaged with Lacan and most especially for clinicians. The first four volumes in the series here represent the promise of establishing a more thoroughly Lacanian culture in the United States in the ready availability of many notable psychoanalytic works heretofore unavailable in English. Even in the variable range of quality of these initial offerings we see an opportunity not to highlight inadequacies, but rather an almost clinical opportunity to investigate further another neighborhood in the Lacanian village and reflect yet some more on the relationship of Lacanian analysis to larger psychoanalytic communities and other traditions. And having an opportunity to engage with the good, the bad, and the mediocre, the exceptional and the merely serviceable, the most doctrinaire and the more heretical, we can only expand the number of voices at play in the psychoanalytic village green, as it were, and we are afforded the chance to work with and work through positions that seem different, difficult, simple, or wrong.
It is in this multiplicity of voices, the repetitiveness of some of the information (especially in the more introductory and not specifically clinical texts), that Lacan will become more and more familiar in the United States. It is in this call to work, to converse, that psychoanalysts from various factional camps may come together to protect, preserve, and even advance the Freudian discovery, on the eve of the Library of Congress's belated opening of its purportedly epochal Freud show, at the end of the Freudian century, in t