Humor is a challenge to the realities of life. Yet the form this challenge takes varies depending on which reality one is confronting. The theme of the 21st International Psychoanalysis Meetings of Istanbul, organized by the Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association in 2019, was “Humor and Psychoanalysis.” The present issue includes the texts presented...

Contents:  introduction - Ayça Gürdal KüeyPsychoanalytic writing between desire and knowledge- Jean Claude Rolland / Translated by Özen AlemdarPsychoanalysis between two languages – Bernard Penot / Translated by: Bahar Kolbay Poetry as an attempt to present "The full mysterious states in dream"- M.Levent KayaalpWriting the list...

Contents   introduction - ADİLE UYAR symbolization, transformations and psychosis. Elaboration of violence through the psychoanalytic psychodrama of a schizophrenic patient - ALAIN GIBEAULT From the dead body to the animated body: coming to life- ELDA ABREVAYAHow far is the sexual metamorphosed in adolescence?- BERNARD...

ContentsIntroduction - Ayça Gürdal KüeyWhy heteroexuality, after all? - Jacques André /Translated by Özen AlemdarDialogues on love - Elda AbrevayaAnd of course, love - Ayça Gürdal KüeyBetween men and women, a strange union - Isée /Translated by A. Elif Yavuz - Talat ParmanPaternal function and masculinity - Bernard Penot /Translated by Perge AkgünF...

Contents • introduction - Talat Parman• so-called 'death drive'; the Indispensable dynamic element for every subjective life - Bernard Penot /translated by Özen Alemdar• when life is death - Ferhan Özenen• the malady of death - Pınar Padar• the death drive in current clinical practices - Marilia Aisenstein / translated by Levent Mete• to be or...