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This paper presents a research advance to highlight the involvement of the unconscious image of the body in the child, in the learning of reading and writing. Some psychoanalysts offer their observations and implicitly account for this relationship. The others expose it and theorize it explicitly. The variety of the children’s difficulties shows the path of search and appropriation of grains of truth, in each child, of what has been their filiation. I propose that Dolto’s pioneering observations on the voice, as well as Porge’s recent works, especially his proposal of the echo stage, allow us to enrich this relationship between letter and body image, and they raise new problems and questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reflection on musical improvisation that evokes the primordial musical improvisation, the one of the origin of the subject. Redirection, voice, invocation and transmission of language are present there. The improvised response to the real of the subject is organized and modulated cadenced by repetition. It falls to the analytic work to invite the subject to improvise beyond the symptomatic repetition, by relistening to the vestiges of lalangue that musically insist in him and by listening to the unexpected real that invokes the unknown, the still-not-heard. This work would consist on going from free association to free improvisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of the Lacanian notion of "lalangue" as it allows us to consider a topology of the body for Lacanian psychoanalysis. "Lalangue" is transitive between infant and mother, the body is gestated in the transitivism and takes its trace. Body constitution is synchronous to the emergence of the unconscious. The infant is going to extract the battery of signifiers from "lalangue". "Lalangue" is an operation and, simultaneously, a product; both are indispensable to have a voice. The comment of the case of an autistic child treated by Sami Ali will support this idea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper aims to introduce the main axes in the contemporary debate regarding the Lacanian psychoanalytic approach of autism. Different autobiographic writings by autistic people are here referred in order to untangle what they can bear witness to in relation to what allowed them a way out of their autistic withdrawal. The research on which this paper is based emphasizes the importance of the recognition that psychoanalysis makes of the autistic person as a subject with full rights and the fundamental role it plays in the contemporary debates regarding a possible treatment for autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to work the thematic of the voice, the music and the trait in James Joyce, his father John and his daughter Lucia in order to think about the question of the elevation of the symptom of the lack of the father through the writing of James Joyce in his literary work as well as though the relation of Lucia with the dance. Our proposal is to reflect about the writing of Joyce to think about the relation between a possible writing of the voice and the invocation to the Father, as well as the transmission of the voice made in these three generations of the Joyce family in what each one of them could, in different ways, create guided by the real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]