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  • The origins of modesty

    By Morgane Léger | March 10th, 2021

    Can we speak of an emergence of modesty in a subject? Where does modesty have its origin? In Seminar “RSI”, Jacques Lacan evokes a film brought  by Jenny Aubry which  illustrates the […]

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  • By Peggy Papada | March 3rd, 2021

    Lacan’s desire for a school of psychoanalysis went beyond Freud, beyond Oedipus, beyond the structure of “the all” and its antinomic element. This was the logic of “all men” born […]

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  • Let’s Play!

    By Gustavo Dessal | March 3rd, 2021

    In 1985, Neil Postman published his magnificent essay “Amusing ourselves to death”, in which he wondered whether the future of the world would have the grim face of Orwell’s prophecy, […]

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  • THE INVENTION OF THE PARTNER

    By Jacques-Alain Miller | February 24th, 2021

    When you are going to encounter a psychoanalyst, you encounter a partner – a new partner you have not encountered in your life and with whom you are going to […]

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  • Urgency: Between Truth and Jouissance

    By Ricardo Seldes | February 20th, 2021

    Urgency is a hole in time, it is the time of eternalization. When a traumatic event breaks through, perplexity arises, regardless of the structural diagnosis. The subjective response will come […]

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  • What Bill Gates wants from me, and from all of us

    By Gustavo Dessal | February 17th, 2021

    During the eighties, David Icke was a famous sports presenter on the BBC. Shortly after leaving that post, he suffered an episode of epiphanic revelation on the Isle of Wight. […]

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  • Did Harry Potter go through the Pass?

    By Dominique Rudaz | February 13th, 2021

    In the final chapters of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, does the protagonist relate to an experience that might resemble that of the Pass? The part that caught my […]

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  • Women Tell Their Stories

    By Marco Focchi | January 30th, 2021

    We know that at the end of his life Freud was left with at least one unresolved enigma, that of female sexuality: I do not know what a woman wants, […]

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