The Lacanian Review Online

  • Mystery and Birdsong

    By Anne Edan | May 9th, 2020

    “What is this virus, Theo?” Theo: “It’s a virus that makes children go away.” These are the words of a three and a half year old who is asking: “Why […]

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  • Reclusions

    By Gustavo Dessal | May 8th, 2020

    In Japan, the number of elderly people commiting crimes is increasing because they want to go to jail. In jail they have company, they are treated well and confinement is […]

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  • Structural Discord

    By Florencia F.C. Shanahan | May 6th, 2020

    I had been hoping to translate Dalila Arpin’s piece published by our colleagues in the ELP,[1] for I had been touched by how well she had put some of the […]

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  • Resolutely Lacanian

    By Marie-Hélène Roch | May 6th, 2020

    About The Other Side of Bio-politics. A Writing for Jouissance, by Éric Laurent.[1] Subversion The Other Side of Bio-politics,[2] a title too Foucauldian? That was my question for a moment. […]

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  • A Journal

    By René Raggenbass | May 5th, 2020

    I want to share with you what my thoughts are trying to capture of the phenomena that have taken place for four days in a body affected not by a […]

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  • An Open Window

    By Sonia Chiriaco | May 5th, 2020

    Time has been suspended, in any case it is different. It seems to be stretching but also accelerating. However, what time do we speak about here, that of the analytic […]

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  • The Real of Science and Its Numbers

    By Marina Veneka | May 4th, 2020

    Each of us faces his/her own real. Nowadays, however, we could say that CO-VID19 is the real of the entire planet. Every day, we witness new measures “feeding” the speech […]

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  • Viral Times

    By Lieve Billiet | May 3rd, 2020

    As I recently stated, surely all too naïvely and ill-considered, was that “what we are living is really new and unknown and this whole Corona/Covid-19 situation would have been unthinkable […]

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  • Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011): A Reading

    By Shlomo Lieber | May 2nd, 2020

    How should we read the film Melancholia,[1] whose visual power and meticulous aesthetics captivate our eyes so? And whose music – the overture from Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan and Iseult […]

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