ABSTRACT
Often enough psychoanalysts speak of deferring to the artist. Jacques Lacan himself did this with Marguerite Duras, and more generally when he said that one should 'take a leaf from the book' of artists. Lacan attempted to rethink the whole of the analytic experience with his new schema, including the classical diagnostic categories of neurosis, psychosis, and perversion, and all, the possibility of a terminable analysis. There is, first of all, Lacan's interrogation, as an analyst, of the case of James Joyce, his person and his place in the new categories of the Borromean knot clinic. Lacan obviously evokes the text in passing, comments on some epiphany, some expression or some contribution to the vast literature about Joyce. As for the Joyceans, he summarises their work as 'consisting in wondering why Joyce put such and such thing here or there.
