The lates issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies (vol. 51, no. 1, Spring 2021), the flagship journal of the Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS), has just been published. Chris Vanderwees edits a special issue on “Lacan in America,” with contributions from a range of international Lacanian readers.
Will Greenshields (Zhejiang University) writes about Jacques-Alain Miller, Lacan’s son-in-law, and editor of his seminars, and his view of the United States as the exemplary “hypermodern civilization”. Psychonanalyst Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez is the co-founded the Lacan Salon in 2007 and currently serves as its clinical director. She writes on “Psychoanalysis: Critique and possibilities, then and now.” Dan Collins, a founding member of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, finds an unexpected pairing of Lacan and Robert Frost. Daniel Adleman, an assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Toronto, looks at German-Jewish studies scholar Eric L. Santner’s “meta-reading of Lacan’s reading of Freud’s reading of fin-de-siècle Saxon jurist Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903).” Finally, Anthony Ballas of the University of Colorado at Denver, revisits Joan Copjec’s now classic essay “The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan” (1989), and its effects on psychoanalytic film theory.