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  • The City that Never Sleeps…

    By Maria Cristina Aguirre | March 28th, 2020

    New York City has fallen into a deep slumber. Broadway is asleep, the lights are out, and the show is not going on.  Likewise, the museums, the houses of worship […]

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  • The Times of the Virus

    By Marie-Hélène Brousse | March 27th, 2020

    Maintaining sessions by the various means that modernity makes available to us, in this period of chaos for the social bond, brings sonorous and signifying material to this epidemic.[i] An […]

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  • Love in a time of Isolation

    By Alan Rowan | March 27th, 2020

    In the face of the coronavirus pandemic to isolate has become a social act, an act of care, if also one tinged with anxiety, and of course, one that is […]

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  • Salva Veritate?

    By Claudia Iddan | March 26th, 2020

    The subject in psychoanalysis is split, this is a basic assumption of the theory. This split forms a perspective different from the one, which gives the “ego” absolute superiority as […]

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  • To Each His Own Pandemic

    By François Ansermet | March 26th, 2020

    “The real as impossible to bear” Jacques Lacan, “Ouverture de la Section Clinique” “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind” John Donne, Devotion 17   We […]

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  • Life Over Death

    By Thomas Svolos | March 26th, 2020

    In one of his last essays, Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud offered a kind of metapsychological model of what we Lacanians call the drive (poorly translated in English as instinct).  […]

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  • The Law of Nature and the Real without Law

    By Miquel Bassols | March 25th, 2020

    The real without law seems unthinkable. It is a limit idea that in the first instance means that the real is without natural law. – Jacques-Alain Miller  Everything that you […]

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  • A Viridical [sic] Relation to the Real

    By Janet Haney | March 25th, 2020

    A “veridical relation to the real” is how Lacan put it upon returning to France after his five-week visit to England in 1945 [1]. I have often tried to imagine […]

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