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In an analysis, the subject comes to speak about what doesn’t work, what bothers him, makes him obsessed or anxious. Something of his jouissance is opaque to him. Once the […]

It is only by pushing the impossible into its last defenses that impotence takes the power to make the patient turn into the agent. [1] Jacques Lacan     When sanitary […]

Breathtaking! At the time of deconfinement in France, the question of art’s place, in our postmodernity, arises. Since the sanitary lockdown, galleries, museums are closed, festivals and concerts are canceled. […]

Affect and Contract That the Law gives way to affect, surprises. Nothing seems further from the Law than the register of affects. One signs a contract. One cannot say the […]

Interview by Luz Saint Phat   How can psychoanalysis contribute to understanding and shedding light on some of the situations faced by subjects within the Covid-19 outbreak and the statutory […]

Confinement has brought us a new and paradoxical form of fatigue: the fatigue of video calls. Paradoxical because, despite the fact that now the bodies do not move through subway […]

“For me the only true, serious science  worth following is science fiction” [i]   During the lockdown, with the images of deserted cities, the anonymity of doctors and nurses behind […]

For an analytic session, there is no criterion for success or accuracy: one can only say that it took place. It took place if it produced a certain effect, an […]

  In difficult circumstances such as our current one, the unconscious, which does not know viruses or time, persists and insists. What to do with one’s analysis, when “virtual” analysis […]

Summoned: it starts when you list your symptoms to several different people after dialing 15—the French medical emergency number—also known as SAMU. You are taken more and more seriously and […]