Lacanian psychoanalysis

  • The One-All Alone And The Posthuman

    By Fred Baitinger | November 9th, 2019

    Object a, as the object cause of desire, represents what is internally exclude from a symbolic system, what marks its limit as an extimate remainder.  Object a is thus, at […]

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  • 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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  • The Root of Segregation

    By Jorge Assef | March 27th, 2019

    A young man of 30 who describes his family with pride during the initial consultation, shares a disturbing memory in a subsequent session: at the age of 11, he hears […]

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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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  • Art and Fiction – Lucy Orta’s Procession Banners

    By Françoise Stark-Mornington | November 14th, 2018

    Outstanding! To encounter the performance Procession Banners (2018)[1] by Lucy Orta is to face the “sovereign image”.[2] This work leads the viewer beyond the sense of the conventional, as it […]

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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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  • “[…] and I did not open my mouth anymore”

    By Juliette Lauwers | November 3rd, 2018

    In Europe today, the question of politics as faced with human phenomena is effaced in favour of a discourse of necessity. The decision makers think that they are managers. The […]

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  • Time Does Not Stop

    By Alejandro Willington | October 28th, 2018

    “Time does not stop” is the title of a famous song by the Argentine rock band Bersuit Vergarabat.[1] This could be the title of a television series, since the phenomenon […]

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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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  • Liquid Times Are Over. Solid Monsters Are Back

    By Gustavo Dessal | October 20th, 2018

    When I proposed that the book written with Professor Bauman be entitled “The Return of the Pendulum” it was because those words, suggested in his mail of 08/23/2012, strongly caught […]

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