ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses chronic homelessness. Indeed, and in keeping with Jacques Lacan’s logic, it is even more incumbent on the psychoanalyst who presumes to go out into unfamiliar erritory to declare his reasons for being there. Lacan described psychoanalysis as an art, the art of producing the necessity of discourse. Lacan describes it at one point, the difficulty which Hans faced was that the passage, the journey, beyond his immediate milieu was at once a necessity and, in his case, an impossibility. In the mid-1950s Lacan gave a year-long seminar in which he spent quite some time re-examining this case of Sigmund Freud. But Freud finds that this cure that he and Josef Breuer have come up with is one which, for some reason, his patients resist, despite it supposedly being for their own good; that is, despite it being their own cure.
