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JE
2025
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LINKS TO THE COLLISION OF SPEAKING BEINGS WITH LEGAL PROCESSES IN THE UK
There are examples of the law versus a speaking being
*Rona Epstein : Homeless woman imprisoned for 18 months for trying to sleep in the YMCA : 11th September 2025
Download https://manifestoclub.info/homeless-woman-imprisoned-for-18-months-for-trying-to-sleep-in-the-ymca/
Dr Epstein concludes:
We must ensure that our legislators reform the law of contempt so that county courts would no longer have the power to impose imprisonment on homeless people who have not committed any crime.
There must be a system guaranteed to ensure effective oversight of the decisions to commit to prison made in the County Courts under civil law, where the long established protections for defendants under criminal law do not apply.
A RELATED TEXT
* Rona Epstein : Punishing Mental Illness : 15th June 2023
Download https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/punishing-mental-illness
Quote, Our database of sanctions for breach of Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBIs) and other injunctions reported on the official site of for contempt of court now comprises 307 cases. In 11 per cent of cases (33) the judgments of the court mention mental health issues, including addiction.
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Alternatives
I believe that imprisonment is not the solution to the problems posed by anti-social behaviour. Imprisonment contravenes the basic legal principle of proportionality. The Civil Justice Council reported on this subject in 2020, pointing out the disproportionate punishments imposed and their finding that half the defendants had no legal representation, many were committed to prison in their absence, many were extremely vulnerable. They made 15 recommendations to improve the system; none have been implemented.
Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions come within civil not criminal law. In the criminal law there are protections for the defendant: pre-sentence reports, referral to probation service for support, etc. Furthermore, in criminal cases there are out-of-court disposals, diversion and pre-court measures available to the police to deal with less serious low-level crime.
There is evidence that these measures have been largely successful and have kept people subject to them out of the criminal justice system. … These approaches which have been found to be effective in the criminal system should be applied to anti-social behaviour, which although not criminal, may lead to custody.
Contempt of Court imprisonment raises basic questions of social justice. It is an anomaly in that people are given a criminal sanction of imprisonment for behaviour that is not criminal. This violates the law as set out in S.230 (2) of the Sentencing Act 2020: imprisonment is a last resort to be used only when “an offence was so serious that neither a fine alone nor a community sentence can be justified for the offence”.
Problems arise when mental illness and addiction lead to anti-social behaviour, which require measures that respect human rights, with a welfare, not a punitive, approach to medical and social problems.
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Miquel Bassols : Erotomania – Love and Jouissance in Jacques Lacan Seminar Encore : 8th February 2025 (London), see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Bassols) or https://miquelbassols.blogspot.com/2025/02/erotomania-love-and-jouissance-in.html
2023
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Geert Hoornaert : From the Small (a) to the Big Pile : 27th January 2023
Towards the XXIst NLS Congress, Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and Civilisation, 20/21 May 2023 (Zoom), Newsletter Meteor. Circulated on NLS Messager, 27th January 2023,
Available at https://nlscongress2023.amp-nls.org/blogposts/geerthoornaerten
Reference [18] 18th November 1975 Seminar XXIII
Hoornaert, A virus has just reminded us of this. But from this nature transformed into a “potpourri of what is not in the nature of anything,”[18]
p3 18.1.75 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, www.LacaninIreland.com/Seminars, Nature, I will say, to be done with it, is distinguished by being not-one. Hence the logical procedure for tackling it. To call nature what you exclude in the very act of taking an interest in something, that something being distinguished by being named, nature, by this procedure, only runs the risk of being characterised as a pot-pourri of what lies outside nature.
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Domenico Cosenza : Authoritarism : 26th January 2023
Towards the clinic and critique of patriarchy – Pipol XI : 1 & 2nd July 2023 (Brussels)
Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z (Cosenza)
Reference [1]
Cosenza, ‘It is assumed that the master at work has to present himself in the form of « …a master she can reign over »’ [1] [1] pIX 15 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, www.LacaninIreland.com /Seminars, But as soon as you ask the question: What does a woman want?”, you are situating the question at the level of desire, and everyone knows that situating the question at the level of desire for the woman, means questioning the hysteric. What the hysteric want – I say this for those who do not have this vocation, there must be many – is a master. That is absolutely clear. This is so even to the point that the question must be asked if it is not from this that the invention of the discourse of the Master started. This would complete what we are in the process of tracing out in a very elegant manner. She wants a master. This is what resides in the little top right hand corner, to give it no other name. She wants the other to be a master, to know many things, but all the same not to know enough not to believe that she is the supreme prize of all his knowledge. In other words, she wants a master over whom she reigns. She reigns, and he does not govern. It is from this that Freud started. She, is the hysteric, but this is not necessarily specific to one sex. As soon as you ask the question What does so-and-so want? You enter into the function of desire, and you bring out the master-signifier. 18th March 1970 Seminar XVII
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Guy Poblome : Nobodaddy : 27th January 2023
Towards the clinic and critique of patriarchy – Pipol XI : 1 & 2nd July 2023 (Brussels)
Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z (Poblome)
Reference [3]
Poblome : …on one hand, the father’s absence, the nobody, on which the poem is explicit : « Why art thou silent and invisible, Father… ? » ; face of the jouissance on the other : « …, Father of Jealousy ? » [2 William Blake], which is not without recalling the father of Totem and Taboo[3].
[3] Totem and Taboo : 4th June 1913 [1912-1913] : Sigmund Freud See www.LacanianWorks.org /3 Sigmund Freud (19130604 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts) & www.Freud2Lacan.com
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2022
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Éric Laurent : The Father after Patriarchy (Part 1) : 16th December 2022 (Moscow).
This is the first part of the conference delivered by Éric Laurent in the framework of « Les Conférences pour la psychanalyse », Russia-Moscow Initiative, on the 16th of December 2022, in person and by video-conference. Towards Pipol 11, Clinic and Critique of Patriarchy, 1st & 2nd July 2023, Brussels. Circulated From: Pipol 11 (https://www.pipol11.eu/en/2023) , Subject: [Pipol 11] Nobodaddy 4, le 17 février 2023 Date: 17 February 2023 at 06:27:14 GMT, Translated by Adeena May, at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent
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Éric Laurent : The Irreducible Place of the Father (Part II) : 16th December 2022 (Moscow).
This is the second part of the conference delivered by Éric Laurent in the framework of « Les Conférences pour la psychanalyse », Russia-Moscow Initiative, on the 16th of December 2022, in person and by video-conference. Towards Pipol 11, Clinic and Critique of Patriarchy, 1st & 2nd July 2023, Brussels. Circulated From: Pipol 11 (https://www.pipol11.eu/en/2023) , Subject: [Pipol 11] Nobodaddy 5, le 24 février 2023 Date: 24 February 2023 at 06:37:14 GMT, in the section To do without / to make use of it. Translated by Adeena May, Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent
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Guy Poblome : Clinic and Critique of Patriarchy – Argument : 8th December 2022, The argument towards Pipol XI – clinic & critique of patriarchy – 1 & 2 July 2023 (Brussels, Belgium) : https://www.europsychoanalysis.eu/?lang=en , Available https://www.amp-nls.org/nls-messager/argument-for-pipol-11-clinic-and-critique-of-patriarchy/
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Mario L. Beira : A Brief Note on Lacan’s Presentation on the ‘Names-of-the-Father’ on the establishment of its text and its translation : 7th March 2022 (Miami, Florida, USA). Published www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (7. Lacan’s November 20 1963 Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father (3 translations))]
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2020
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René Raggenbass : The Moment of the Act as Unpredictable : Fall 2020
Published The Lacanian Review Issue 10 – Paranoia p40-48 Fall 2020 : Translated by Annie Ramel, Josiane Paccaud, Véronique Voruz. See www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Raggenbass)]
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Yaron Gilat : Walls and Holes in Psychiatric Institutes : 8th January 2020.
See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Gilat) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z (Gilat)
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2019
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Oriol Corbacho : The Flavour of Nightmare (LRO 195) : 30th November 2019. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Corbacho) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Corbacho)]
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Éric Laurent (interview) : Desire, Jouissance and Fantasy : 4th May 2019.
Interview by Iara Bianchi for De Inconscientes®, Full interview at https://deinconscientes.com/deseo-goce-y-fantasma-eric-laurent/, Date of interview not given, Translated from the Spanish by Florencia F.C. Shanahan & Roger Litten, published on 4th May 2019 at https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/desire-jouissance-and-fantasy/
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2010
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Éric Laurent : L’impossible nomination, ses semblants, son sinthome : 10th November 2010 (Île-de-France ),
Published La Cause freudienne 2011/1 (N° 77), pages 69 à 84, Cited, Circulated in French only by the New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, towards the May 2024 Congress – the Clinic of the Gaze – by NLS-Messager, as [nls-messager] 4907.fr/ POP-UP FLASH #14, on 29th April 2024 at 08:53:10 BST,
Available https://www.cairn.info/revue-la-cause-freudienne-2011-1-page-69.htm
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2006
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Guy Briole : War and the Name-of-the-Father : 14th July 2006 (Rome), See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Briole) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Briole)
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Miquel Bassols : Family and Name-of-the-Father : 14th July 2006 (Rome), See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Bassols) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Bassols)
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Nathalie Charraud : X – the Unknown of the Equation and the Name-of-the-Father : 13th July 2006 (Rome). See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Charraud) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors by date (July 2006)
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Antonio di Ciaccia : G o d : 13th July 2006 (Rome). See this site /5 Authors A-Z (di Ciaccia) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors by date (July 2006)
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Dominique Laurent : The Name-of-the-Father and the “Direction of the Cure” : 13th July 2006 (Rome). See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Laurent) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors by date (July 2006)
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2005
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Department of Health, UK : Interim Report to Department of Health on Initial Mapping Project for Psychotherapy & Counselling by Sally Aldridge & James Pollard, (BACP/UKCP Project Co-ordinators) : 30th June 2005, see www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors by Date (June 2005)
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1993
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Éric Laurent : Womanly positions of being : May or June 1993
This text, drawn from a session of Éric Laurent’s 1992-3 Course Positions féminines de l’être: du masochisme féminin au pousse à la femme and published in La Cause freudienne, Issue 24, : jun. 1993, pp. 107-113. The exact date it was given is not known.
Translated by Adrian Price, Published in Hurly-Burly No. 3, 2010, pp. 91
Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent
The text Feminine Positions of Being : probably May 1993 : Éric Laurent, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Laurent of Index of Authors) probably preceded this text in the Seminar Series.
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1981
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Éric Laurent : Reading Gabrielle and Richard with Little Hans : 1981
Original publication, Lire Gabrielle et Richard à partir du Petit Hans / LAURENT Eric. Quarto, 1981, n° n°1. – p. 3 : Published Psychoanalytical Notebooks 28 (2014) p69-84 : Download, translated by Ian Curtis, at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent [JE notes an alternative translation might be ‘Reading Gabrielle and Richard starting from Little Hans]
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