The Lacanian clinical field : series overview / Judith Feher Gurewich -- Construing Lacan / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- The place of Lacanian psychoanalysis in North American psychology / Kareen Ror Malone -- Lacan in America / Joseph H. Smith -- What is wrong with French psychoanalysis? Observations on Lacan's first seminar / Paul Roazen -- Please read Lacan! / C. Edward Robins -- New resistances to psychoanalysis / Gérard Pommier -- Psychoanalysis : resistible and irresistible / Patricia Gherovici -- Lacanian reception / Catherine Liu -- October's Lacan, or In the beginning was the void / Steven Z. Levine --Lacan's new gospel / Michel Tort -- Construction, interpretation, and deconstruction in contemporary psychoanalysis / Néstor A. Braunstein -- "Heads I win, tails you lose" : Wittgenstein, Plato, and the role of construction and deconstruction in psychoanalysis and ethics / Erich D. Freiberger -- On Lacan and mathematics / Arkady Plotnitsky -- The body as viewing instrument, or the strut of vision / Joan Copjec -- The experience of the outside : Foucault and psychoanalysis / Christopher Lane -- The subject of homosexuality : Butler's elision / Frances L. Restuccia -- The philanthropy of perversion / Judith Feher Gurewich -- On female homosexuality : a Lacanian perspective / Marcianne Blévis.