A Woman’s Existence
By Keren Ben-Hagai | May 19th, 2021“Wie es wird, wie sich das Weib.”[1] Throughout his teaching, Freud referred to femininity as an enigma. He spoke of woman’s sexuality as a dark continent. And in his letter […]
“Wie es wird, wie sich das Weib.”[1] Throughout his teaching, Freud referred to femininity as an enigma. He spoke of woman’s sexuality as a dark continent. And in his letter […]
This expression “body event”, as defining the symptom, can be found in the text Lacan submitted for inclusion in the proceedings of the 5thInternational Joyce Symposium in 1975, under the […]
Image credit: “Las dos Fridas” (1989; Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas) by Pedro Marinello. Further details at: http://english.yeguasdelapocalipsis.cl/ “I don’t think I was born for love, I invent love for […]
In his last Seminar, The Moment to Conclude, Lacan says the following: “The Symbolic is language: we learn to speak and it leaves traces […], consequences that are nothing other than the sinthome […]
Image credit: Hermaphrodite endormi, resting on a mattress specially sculpted by Bernini. Roman work discovered in 1608, life-size marble, Louvre Museum. The storm has broken. The trans crisis is upon […]
The Other is needed to construct a body, for a body is not something that we can take for granted. Freud’s hysterics ‘have a body’, which transmits a message from […]
Sunday 21 March, 2021 Jacques-Alain Miller: My dear Éric Marty, I thought I would start with a little ‘speech’ [in English in the original]. Your book, I received it […]
In the sixth lesson of the Seminar Identification,[1] Lacan starts his elaboration on the difference between the proper name and the common name. Unlike Stuart Mill and Sir Alan Gardiner, […]
Violence is part of our contemporary world and the classifications with which crimes are named are expanding and diversifying. Crimes transcend gender, race, and age, but some take on the […]
In relation to the psychotic subject, practice among many (La pratique à plusieurs) may initiate three effects (2, 3). First, generate a division, as the one we speak of when […]