If a Tree Were to Fall on an Island Where There Was No Psychoanalyst: On the Ethical Status of Sound

By | May 25th, 2022|LRO 346|

“But what need can an analyst have for an extra ear, when it sometimes seems that two are already too many, since he runs headlong into the fundamental misunderstanding brought on by the relationship of [...]

Conspiracism and Psychoanalysis: The Side of Meaning and the Side of Cause

By | February 23rd, 2022|LRO 330|

Lacan asserted that “belief [foi] is the deepest mode of the relationship of man to reality,” that is, explains Jacques-Alain Miller, “to the signifier.”[1] This fundamental yes, this Bejahung, is essential for psychoanalysis to exist, [...]

Decency

By | November 17th, 2021|LRO 319|

Some politicians wear a larva of decency. There are always moments of exposure (Entlarvung) where something behind the larva comes out. These moments are often very comical (komisch) and of course revealing for the political [...]

From the “Shine of the Absences” to the Mystic as a Body Event

By | September 23rd, 2021|LRO 311|

The architecture of Seminar XX: Encore meets some of its fundamental pillars already in the sixties. Lacan highlights a certain negligence regarding the way in which post-Freudian psychoanalysts took a stand on female sexuality and [...]

By | March 3rd, 2021|LRO 277|

Lacan’s desire for a school of psychoanalysis went beyond Freud, beyond Oedipus, beyond the structure of “the all” and its antinomic element. This was the logic of “all men” born of a father who stands [...]

Fast!

By | May 13th, 2020|LRO 225|

That the body is an object, well psychoanalysis knows this from its origins. An object that can be loved, hated, manipulated, bought, sold, cared for, corrupted, desecrated, destroyed... whether it is our own or that [...]

Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. About Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’

By | April 17th, 2020|COVID-19 / 2020 #58|

Allene Hughes: “Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e” Howard Hughes: “Quarentine. Q.u.a.r.e.n.t.i.n.e. Quarentine” (Opening scene of the Martin Scorcese film, The aviator)   In the midst of the quarantine in which we find ourselves, I have found an extraordinary interview [...]

In Times of Crisis, the Other Demands Your Body to Cover Up His Lack

By | March 31st, 2020|COVID-19 / 2020 #30|

Worldwide, human subjects experience an imposed control and restriction of their personal freedom in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually all governments resort to the same measures: self-isolation, social distancing, total lockdown, restrictions of free [...]

Fire

By | November 6th, 2019|LRO 189|

America burns. Santiago of Chile burns. Fury burns in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Haiti. And something begins to move in the United States. All that turmoil has in common the fact that capitalism is moving towards [...]

My Precious

By | February 6th, 2019|LRO 126|

Blimunda, the protagonist of José Saramago’s “Memorial of the Convent”, had the magical property of seeing inside people. Saramago constructs here the metaphor of the ‘society of transparency’ that will emerge years later and which [...]

Do Not Allow the Word to Stop Circulating Among the Political Choices of the 21st Century

By | December 19th, 2018|LRO 114|

This November, the NLS newsletter circulated a text[1] by Angelina Harari, originally published more than a year and a half ago. In March of 2017, Harari, among many others around the world, was already signaling [...]

The tea of the master and the tea of desire. A short story in the light of Lacan’s Seminar XVII

By | September 15th, 2018|LRO 89|

Amantine is the heroine of the exceptional short story À Clairmont by Maryse Battistuzzi.[1] She is an old lady with a particular whim that makes other people wonder: when taking her tea she invariably leaves [...]

Refugee Lives Matter

By | September 7th, 2018|LRO 87|

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 strive to pay attention to [...]

“Happy End” and the Object-Gaze

By | May 17th, 2018|LRO|

Happy End, Michael Haneke’s latest movie which opened at the end of 2017, begins with the object – gaze and ends in the same way. The movie depicts the specified problematic in question in a [...]

The Lobster, a Dear Commodity

By | October 4th, 2017|67|

*Let us draw, here, on all three (main) senses of the word "dear":                    1.beloved, loved, cherished, worthy                    2.High-priced, expensive, hard to get                    3.(Archaic) hard, grievous                                                                          Webster's Unabridged Dictionary     In [...]

The dialectic of love and hatred. Cockfighter. Psychoanalysts for Trump ’16

By | April 26th, 2016|LRO 30|

Hysterical identification is the source of our intelligence. Only through identification and introjection can we escape the prison of our own unspeakable jouissance. Gifted children distinguish themselves from regular, ungifted children by their capacity to [...]

Uprising

By | January 8th, 2016|LRO 15|

This memory of Jacob Freud's, which he tells his young son Sigmund, triggered off revenge fantasies in the latter. In Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud explains how he developed an identification with Hannibal, whose sole [...]

Another Kind of DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors)

By | October 2nd, 2015|LRO 02|

“According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data, the Department of Homeland Security deported 414,481 people in fiscal year 2014, down from 438,421 the year before.”1 This drop in numbers may be due in part [...]