A brief encounter
By Lynn Gaillard | October 12th, 2019While walking along a country road three children ran towards me, calling out “Madame! Madame!” They were talking at the same time, excited, agitated. I could make out the French […]
While walking along a country road three children ran towards me, calling out “Madame! Madame!” They were talking at the same time, excited, agitated. I could make out the French […]
AB: You have worked for many years in institutions linked to the treatment of eating disorders. What does the Lacanian psychoanalytic approach contribute, in respect of psychotherapies and current psychiatry […]
In June of this year many people in the UK were either shocked or bewildered to hear both the American Ambassador to the UK, and then the US President Donald […]
The real of psychoanalysis The non-relation is the real of psychoanalysis. Let us not forget that the sexual non-relation is based on a non-relation of words, which is prior to […]
Lacan was able to call the analyst’s act of saying [dire] which responds to the saying [dire] of the unconscious become hybrid, jaculation. “What we establish with the Borromean knot already goes […]
Neo-liberalism, compared to a prior stage of capitalism, does not repress desire as such but uses desire to increase the productivity of its workers. Herbert Marcuse called this phenomenon, in […]
Breath taking! Psychoanalysis and cinema are of mutual interest, and Jacques Lacan’s standpoint illuminates this aspect of contemporary art. What, then, brings us to cinema? Cinema introduces an experience with […]
Lacan metaphorizes the question of our contradictions, paradoxes and apparent aporias in the following way: he says that we are busy. Busy preparing our suitcases, examining our conscience, or organizing […]
Not without contingency, I was recently presented with an opportunity to listen to a radio interview with a neuroscientist and popular science blogger explain how psychological traits and tendencies emerge […]
The Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s recent essay, “The Two Tenors: James Joyce and His Father” – included in the book Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know,[1] a delightful discussion of the […]