On September 26th, 1960, the first televised presidential debate in the history of the United States was held. It was between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. For the first […]
During confinement, we experienced absent bodies from a distance. We experienced that the notions of proximity, distance, and border between self and other were insufficient to account for presence. Near, […]
It has been six months since the arrival in Europe of this epidemic, about which we have heard everything and nothing. And it’s far from over. However, the famous “next […]
An elaboration on the essay by Jeannne Wolff Bernstein, “The Spanish Flu, Covid-19 and Sigmund Freud – What can we learn from history?”(1) There is the real of the virus, […]
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people disappear without trace. In police stations around the world there are lists of people who have been reported missing and who will never […]
If God exists, he certainly invented sex to torment us. But then again, he was the first to be bothered: Zeus did nothing other than to cast a spell on ravishing mortals, […]
Freud studied the three great factors that cause discontent in human beings: the action of nature, one’s own body, the relationship with others. Today it is urgent to bring the […]
15.06.20 Before the pandemic and the closure of schools, I was clinically working with 4 to 12 year-old children mostly at their school environment. After the government’s decision to […]
The word “carrion” rings a bell when you are French. That is precisely what happened while I was listening to the London Society of the NLS Online Reading[i] of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar […]
“[…] because I want to go out someday to the street, and soon, without dying.” The kiss of the spider woman, Manuel Puig Martin wrote two letters to […]