The Lacanian Review Online

  • No Guarantee of Democracy

    By Jeff Erbe | Bridgeport, CT & New York, NY, U.S.A. | May 21st, 2022

    The text below was presented during the “Beat Le Pen” (BLP) Forum, hosted by l’École de la Cause freudienne, on April 21, 2022, two days before the second and final […]

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  • On Immigration Control

    By Graciela Brodsky | Buenos Aires, Argentina | May 20th, 2022

    The text below was presented during the “Beat Le Pen” (BLP) Forum, hosted by l’École de la Cause freudienne, on April 22, 2022, two days before the second and final […]

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  • The Murder of Words

    By Deborah Gutermann-Jacquet | Paris, France | May 19th, 2022

    The text below was presented during the “Beat Le Pen” (BLP) Forum, hosted by l’École de la Cause freudienne, on April 22, 2022, two days before the second and final […]

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  • a VIRTUAL SLiP

    By Tammy Weil | Ganey Hadar, Israel | May 11th, 2022

    I see the analyst upside down on my phone screen. He says, “Some people rotate their phone.” These are my first virtual sessions in the days of Covid-19. What can […]

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  • The Ethics of Ecology

    By Roger Litten | San Sebastián, Spain | May 4th, 2022

    In a recent piece circulated on LRO under the title of “Our Blind Spot”, Gustavo Dessal highlighted the striking absence of attention to the question of climate change in our […]

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  • Virtual Slip

    By 3 | May 3rd, 2022

    I see the analyst upside down on my phone screen. She says, “Some people rotate their phone.” These are my first virtual sessions in the days of Covid-19. What can […]

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  • Will Smith at the Oscars: A Slap in the Face for Love

    By Colin Wright | Nottingham, UK | April 27th, 2022

    I hesitate to write this for fear of merely adding to the deafening roar of social media chatter about this incident. Yet another opinion about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock […]

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  • Populism

    By René Rasmussen | Copenhagen, Denmark | April 23rd, 2022

    One of the most prominent political notions today is the populist idea that there is one and only one People, and that this People is represented by the populist party […]

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  • Return Ticket

    By Cyrus St. Amand Poliakoff | Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. | April 20th, 2022

    Arriving in the harbor of New York City, Sigmund Freud beholds the Statue of Liberty illuminating the universe and jokes to his colleague, Carl Jung: “They don’t realize we’re bringing […]

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  • Psychoanalysis, Science Fiction, and Climate Change

    By Thomas Svolos | Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A. | April 13th, 2022

    In November 2021, psychoanalyst Gustavo Dessal challenged psychoanalysts to take account of climate change, which he referred to as a “blind spot” in the discourse of Lacanian psychoanalysis.[1] When it comes […]

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