For years groups of women have been demonstrating in Argentina. Women who, through different manifestations, make a claim for equal gender rights, protection, security, expansion of social benefits, etc. From […]
If popular wisdom baptized money as “the excrement of the Devil”, the cunning of Luther (whose bowel movements inspired the Reformation, according to the biographers) consisted in robbing money from […]
The gadget-Eros [1] “Only love allows jouissance to condescend to desire.”[2] However, in a universe of sexual consumption, where the sex market is particularly extended and can be accessed in […]
Psychoanalysis has shown us that the parlêtre’s life is based on the disharmony which exists between the sexes, on the impossibility of complementary enjoyments since in fact we make love […]
As psychoanalysts we can hardly claim to have answers to all the ills, political or otherwise, of modern civilisation. But as practitioners of speech and language we can at least […]
It’s thirty years since Jacques-Alain Miller’s made a presentation on the “Ironic Clinic”[1] which contrasted humour as “inscribed in the perspective of the Other” as Lacan discusses it in Seminar […]
There is a surprising paradox in the political life of post-communist societies. Surprising to traditional political values. The totalitarian communist parties in our countries have become socialist by name and […]
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 […]
In Argentina, abortion is only legal in cases of rape or danger to a woman’s life and health. Beyond these exceptions, if a woman wants to have an abortion, she […]
“Families, I hate you” – André Gide’s cry in The Fruits of the Earth – keeps on resonating. Family is the best and the worst thing. Family is thus one […]