jouissance

  • 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 « […]

    Read more about Genetics vs Scandalous Desire
  • 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 […]

    Read more about David Cameron and the Joy of Tax
  • Religion of Enjoyment

    By A. Kiarina Kordel | October 16th, 2015

    While revisiting his own dystopia in 1958, Huxley encapsulated the premise of this form of power by juxtaposing it to the earlier, primarily ideological, state: “the early advocates of universal […]

    Read more about Religion of Enjoyment
  • A Match made in Heaven

    By Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff | October 9th, 2015

    The struggle to define the union of two people under the law has continually produced division. Within America the states were divided; the Supreme Court as a Judicial body was […]

    Read more about A Match made in Heaven
  • “P” Is for Psychoanalysis

    By Bogdan Wolf | October 9th, 2015

    Because psychoanalysis has a language of its own that arises in a singular act of a particular subject Lacan later called speaking being. Psychoanalysis stands, in principio, if not de […]

    Read more about “P” Is for Psychoanalysis
  • Mad Men Isn’t Over Yet

    By Jorge Assef | October 2nd, 2015

    The story takes place in the 1960s, at the peak of modern advertising’s rise to glory2, when marketing, the empire of images, and consumer capitalism began to transform human life. […]

    Read more about Mad Men Isn’t Over Yet
  • Chanson d’Amour and the Jouissance of the Other

    By Scott Wilson | October 2nd, 2015

    Chanson Française owes its origins of course to the Chanson Réaliste moment of Aristide Bruant and Le Chat Noir around 1893 that brought young intellectuals together with the demi monde […]

    Read more about Chanson d’Amour and the Jouissance of the Other
  • Two Others

    By Timothy Lachin | September 25th, 2015

    In order for something to exist in the full sense of the word, it must first be named and recognized. The unconscious certainly existed before Freud, but in the absence […]

    Read more about Two Others