The Lacanian Review 10 examines paranoia from the early formations of Jacques Lacan’s work to the contemporary pandemic politics of conspiracy. Paranoia is not only a clinical structure of psychosis cast in the folie a deux that ends in an orgy of blood, as Lacan recounts the infamous crime of the Papin Sisters, but also as the origin of the speaking being, following a new translation of a foundational lesson by Jacques-Alain Miller. The previous volume of The Lacanian Review (TLR) examined a moment when a chasm opened in the big Other. If the consistency of the semblants, like Truth, were already threadbare, the pandemic ripped them apart. In 2020, we continue to witness what happens when one looks to the Other and sees a hole. Paranoia is ubiquitous. Conspiracy runs all through the very fact of speaking. Nearly a decade ago, Jacques-Alain Miller wrote that “Every speaking being is the result of a conspiracy. It could be a natural conspiracy. Besides, as soon as we speak, isn't it true that we are plotting.” TLR is published by the New Lacanian School (amp-nls.org) and distributed by the Lacanian Compass Bookshop (lacaniancompass.com) and Eurl Huysmans (ecf-echoppe.com).
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