fantasy

  • Desire, Jouissance and Fantasy

    By Éric Laurent | May 4th, 2019

    The ‘desire of desire’, as it is posed, clearly has no defined object. The ‘desire of desire’ is precisely an abyss, an opening, an endlessness. The ‘desire to harm’ has […]

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  • Violent Children?

    By Roger Litten | March 17th, 2019

    Due to much stricter controls on the sales of firearms in the UK, we haven’t had the same problem with shootings and mass killings as witnessed in the USA. But […]

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  • Do You Still Believe In Your Symptom?

    By Gustavo Dessal | November 8th, 2018

    For Lacan, modern man is someone who has lost the sense of tragedy. This does not mean, of course, that the current existence of the speaking being is not traversed […]

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  • Big Little Lies: big, little, and necessary lies

    By Alejandro Willington | October 23rd, 2018

    The plot of this interesting miniseries takes place in Monterey, a town in Northern California. The main characters are three women, three mothers – Celeste, Jane and Madeline. Jane is […]

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  • The Lacanian Review. Hurly-Burly – Issue 6

    By LRO | October 17th, 2018

    New Lacanian School (NLS) / World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) The 6th Issue of The Lacanian Review, Fall 2018 ‘¡URGENT!’ Release Date: November 2018 – FREE SHIPPING BEFORE NOVEMBER 4TH […]

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  • What does the translator translate?

    By Gerardo Arenas | August 17th, 2018

    We are all translators, readers, interpreters. We are all translated, read, interpreted. Translation, reading, interpretation, occupy a central, crucial place in our existence since before we are born and beyond […]

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  • The Day After

    By Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff | November 11th, 2016

    Our president elect spoke repeatedly of dreams in his victory address. It was an insane dream I had refused to believe. The perverse will of jouissance was enough for one […]

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  • Bartleby, The Scrivener

    By Dora Pertesi | October 9th, 2016

    Bartleby’s unexpected unwillingness is acknowledged by his boss not just as puzzling but, mainly, as a subversion of the ruling class. A subversion, which ‘contaminates’, literally speaking, the rest of […]

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  • Subjects of Instruments

    By Sam Calmeyn | September 10th, 2016

    Pokémon Go has been dominating the media and the streets, with crowds gathering and provoking chaos when rare characters appear on screen. It shows us to what extent Lacans statement: […]

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