Lacan

  • The Green Tide

    By Carlos Rossi | October 15th, 2018

    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 […]

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  • The Secret Substance

    By Gustavo Dessal | October 11th, 2018

    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 […]

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  • The gadget-Eros

    By Maro Bellou | October 3rd, 2018

    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 […]

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  • Turning One’s Back

    By Claudia Iddan | September 22nd, 2018

    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 […]

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  • Refugee Lives Matter

    By Roger Litten | September 7th, 2018

    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 […]

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  • Post-Ironic Humour

    By Alasdair Duncan | September 2nd, 2018

    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 […]

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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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  • On Life

    By Matias Meichtri Quintans | August 13th, 2018

    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 […]

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  • Family Games

    By Marie-Hélène Brousse | April 16th, 2018

    “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 […]

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