Vol. 4 (2022): Anguish

In the class of 14 November 1962, Lacan proposes to begin to speak of anguish, the axis that his tenth seminar will take. He justifies this choice because he considers that anguish will be the meeting point with everything he had previously been working on, proposing an articulation that will make it clear that, starting from anguish, each term, concept and previous elaboration will better occupy its place both in theory and in practice.

Thus, at the beginning of 1962, he began a series of classes that would give rise to the elaboration of what Lacan would determine, as his only true contribution to psychoanalysis, the object a and link it to the appearance of anguish as a sign that the lack is missing, relating this to his conception of the subject.

In this fourth issue of Pathos we intend to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Lacan's first lecture on the seminar on anguish, bringing anguish into the light of the articles proposed by different authors on the subject.

Anguish will be the axis that brings together the papers, creating a network of its own in each article, in which each author becomes a funambulist who dares to walk the rope of the written word, the void, where it is lodged, and the free papers propose to continue betting on a psychoanalysis that is debating with the present, researching, building a theory that feeds the practice and a practice that builds theory, to sustain the spirit of psychoanalysis.