In a recently published book, in Hebrew, called Criss Cross – Psychoanalysis, Art and Culture [1], one chapter, written by Rony Alfandary and titled Vishniac the Lone Photograph, was devoted […]
This year in June, France passed a new bioethics law. This law allows fertility treatment for all women under the age of 43 from now on. In this case, “all” […]
Lacan demonstrates in his Seminar The Sinthome that the Joycean text concerns the letter. Here the letter is not a vehicle for truth or desire nor the material basis for […]
Chess has never been very popular in the Western world. Chess geniuses, on the contrary, have always drawn public attention. Something otherworldly about these unusual masterminds catches our interest. What […]
How are we to understand Lacanian action today? When does a practice oriented analytically become Lacanian action? In the first place, we should situate the contrast between the term “action” […]
A group of people active in the field of justice, education, the police, the magistracy and health care have been organizing a monthly workshop on Lacanian criminology in person since […]
The architecture of Seminar XX: Encore meets some of its fundamental pillars already in the sixties. Lacan highlights a certain negligence regarding the way in which post-Freudian psychoanalysts took a […]
When I encounter, especially with young subjects, a sentence that begins with “I talked to …”, I find myself sometimes asking, ‘did the conversation take place in presence, by phone, […]
In the domestic landscape of the “internet of things,” one thing is clear: it is not so much the smart TV, the biometric wristwatch, or your car’s new AI that […]
This text was written in response to an article by D. Bishop and J. Swendsen in the BJPsych Bulletin, which slandered Lacan and his students. Addressed in English to the […]