The Lacanian Review Online

The Lacanian Review (TLR) takes Lacan’s proposition that we wake up in order to continue dreaming, with eyes wide open. What wakes us up? The Nightmare. With new translations of […]

The word “Mahapchaniot” is in Hebrew the feminine form of the English word Revolutionaries. This is also the name of a surprising and intelligent new Israeli theatre play, written by […]

Object a, as the object cause of desire, represents what is internally exclude from a symbolic system, what marks its limit as an extimate remainder.  Object a is thus, at […]

America burns. Santiago of Chile burns. Fury burns in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Haiti. And something begins to move in the United States. All that turmoil has in common the fact […]

Can we say that in the movie “Joker”, the protagonist Arthur Fleck, played by Joaquin Phoenix, tries to constitute himself as a subject? Are we witnessing a subjective construction? Firstly, […]

There is perhaps no one in the geopolitical body called the United Kingdom today who has not been affected by and made subject to the divisions produced by the singular […]

In his 1919 paper, The “Uncanny,”1 Freud wrote: “It is only rarely that a psychoanalyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics even when aesthetics is understood to mean […]

Joker is not just a movie about the genesis of the supervillain of Batman. Nor it is a comic book movie on the Clown of Crime that denounces the America […]

I was stunned and appalled to encounter yet another new version of a negationist account, which has been disseminated for an extended period as a piece of innocent information, based […]

We do not have an exact term in our language(*) to express what in Anglo-Saxon culture, especially in the United States, is known as gender reveal, which literally means something […]