The Lacanian Review Online

  • For Shame

    By Soren Larsen | Copenhagen, Denmark | December 7th, 2022

    In Seminar 17, we find an appendix from 3 December 1969, called “Analyticon”, where Lacan addresses the students at Vincennes. Their shameless exhibitionism of jouissance is not opposed to power, […]

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  • She

    By Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff | Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. | November 16th, 2022

    A psychoanalyst’s first lesson on words: the signifier enters the signified. To illustrate this point Lacan replaced Saussure’s tree with his own example, two bathroom doors with signs affixed, Ladies—Gentlemen. […]

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  • Politics: From Science to Religion?

    By Isolda Alvarez | Miami, FL, U.S.A. | November 9th, 2022

    Science and religion are different domains. Science invokes reason and aims for a universal knowledge that can be applied to various fields. The imperative to universalize matters less than the […]

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  • Is psychoanalysis in the city?

    By Sarah Birgani | Vienna, Austria | November 2nd, 2022

    Vienna is the place where Freud discovered the unconscious, it is the birth place of psychoanalysis. Also, it is the place where psychoanalysis was wiped out in 1938. What can […]

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  • Sanna Marin and Theresa de Avila

    By Soren Larsen | Copenhagen, Denmark | October 19th, 2022

    The recent controversy regarding the Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, might be elucidated by Jacques Lacan’s famous “woman does not exist”. Marin is the youngest PM in Finnish history, taking […]

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  • Colored With Nothing

    By Yaron Gilat | Petach-Tikva, Israel | October 5th, 2022

    “When the space of a lapsus no longer carries any meaning (or interpretation), then only is one sure that one is in the unconscious. One knows. But one has only […]

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  • The Scientific Approach

    By Dominique Rudaz | Lausanne, Switzerland | September 28th, 2022

    Some critics of psychoanalysis, in particular the supporters of cognitive-behavioral therapies, argue for having a scientific approach, as we could read in a recent brochure concerning the therapeutic care of […]

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  • Artistic License in a Woke Era

    By Peggy Papada | London, UK | September 21st, 2022

    I Joan, a play which opened at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London last month, shows Joan of Arc as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns, they/ them. Lest it […]

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