The Lacanian Review Online

  • US Blues – The Infernal Machine

    By Thomas Svolos | November 13th, 2015

    In the 1960’s, the Federal government entered the health care industry with the development of Medicare (insurance for the elderly and disabled) and Medicaid, a federal-state collaboration to help insure […]

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  • “E” is for Emigration

    By Bogdan Wolf | November 6th, 2015

    It has been a few months since the UK national elections, and I still cannot help feeling that it was won by the UKIP, with four million votes and counting, […]

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  • Seneca’s Genetic Thinking

    By François Ansermet & Ariane Giacobino | November 6th, 2015

    The article suggests these genomic variants can be associated either to psychiatric illness or to creativity. One of the interesting points made in this both very technical and very specialized […]

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  • Genetics vs Scandalous Desire

    By Caroline Leduc | November 6th, 2015

    Although its results were published a little over a year ago, the study has been hitting the headlines throughout 2015. Romain Dessal, managing director of the highly successful newsletter « […]

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  • The Tingles

    By Alasdair Duncan | October 30th, 2015

    The experience has been called attention induced head orgasm, attention induced euphoria, and attention induced observation euphoria, as well as the tingles, brain massage, head tingle, brain tingle, spine tingle, […]

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  • Open marriage – an impossible dream

    By Ana Maria Benito | October 30th, 2015

    Not being loved as we would like to, feeling of loneliness, the need to feel whole again with oneself? Being stuck in old patterns? Ignoring what is happening to me? […]

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  • A Syndrome May Hide Another

    By François Ansermet & Ariane Giacobino | October 23rd, 2015

    But there’s more. To top it all, the two clinical pictures appear to overlap. A recent study, focusing on a group of nearly 1500 autistic children showed that 20% of […]

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  • When Things Fall Apart

    By France Jaigu | October 23rd, 2015

    The French translation may well be an opportunity to discover the book for those who missed the affair at the time. The torso was discovered exactly 10 days after 9/11, […]

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  • David Cameron and the Joy of Tax

    By Scott Wilson | October 23rd, 2015

    The issue of tax, then, and Corbyn’s promise to tax the rich, was high on the agenda. Alluding to Labour’s decision to seek the advice of various economists like Thomas […]

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