Demonic Possession and Other Jouissance Today
By Marie Trémelot | January 26th, 2022Demonic possession can be considered by some, as well as the religious response to it – to purge the body of the devil that occupies it – as a phenomenon […]
Demonic possession can be considered by some, as well as the religious response to it – to purge the body of the devil that occupies it – as a phenomenon […]
The Lacanian Review (TLR) offered us two fascinating interviews with internationally renowned researchers; the question of black holes was discussed[1]. Recently there was also an interview with a mathematician about […]
The axis of work of the Tenth Study Days of the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise on “The Analytic Act and Civilization” at once raises the question about the relationship of […]
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My first online session was indeed an analytic experience. Even though I consider myself very literate in all kinds of media, I was somehow skeptical about a virtual psychoanalytical session. […]
“Tailor” is the first movie by Sonia Liza Kenterman. It narrates the story of Nikos, a middle-aged tailor, working at his father’s tailor shop in Athens, trying to make ends […]
Kierkegaard, who, according to Lacan, was “the most acute of the questioners of the soul”[1] before Freud, was beset, as he himself testifies, by a problem: “whether repetition is possible, and what it means, […]
In March of 1974 Lacan delivered a lecture in Milan that was premonitory in referring to a threat that no one was paying much attention to at the time. He […]
Some politicians wear a larva of decency. There are always moments of exposure (Entlarvung) where something behind the larva comes out. These moments are often very comical (komisch) and of […]
Acceptance/rejection: this pair of polar terms describes the dominant way of dealing with the otherness of jouissance in public discourse, to locate it somewhere. However, if we look closely at […]