Last March, Microsoft launched a chatbot on Twitter, a conversation-robot to be used by adolescents and young adults. The experiment aimed at studying language comprehension, but led quickly to disaster. […]
*Let us draw, here, on all three (main) senses of the word “dear”: 1.beloved, loved, cherished, worthy 2.High-priced, expensive, hard to get 3.(Archaic) hard, grievous Webster’s […]
Media now interprets with stunning alacrity. The news tirelessly ciphers and deciphers every tweet, photo, encounter and blunder that forms the imaginary body of one, Donald Trump. Then of course, […]
EnregistrerThe Real is not simply opposed to the Imaginary, but is also located beyond the Symbolic, Lacan will assert. Unlike the Symbolic that is constituted in terms of oppositions such […]
These end time auguries flourish in the era of Facebook, Instagram, clickbaits, listicles, hearts and hash-tags. Fraudulent news spreads like wildfire via our false objects. Engage your gizmo and see […]
This backward meaning of death as a concept and human reality, is emphasized in the work of Lacan, in his lecture at the University of Louvain, through the pascalian […]
Can wearing the veil be broached only from the point of view of the duality of the all-powerful man and the submissive and demeaned woman?1 Who can decide whether veiling […]
Many have commented on the shock of this election. And, many are asking themselves now—how could this have happened? Psychoanalysis has its own contribution to this political analysis. Let […]
Some facts: my daughter, an American citizen, was talking in Spanish to an adult in a parking lot when a person drove by them and yelled “go back to your […]
Psychoanalysis is more than necessary in Slovenia. It is a country, where families by tradition include failed fathers, so that mothers have to take up an authoritative stance. Furthermore, Slovenes […]