Alongside the coronaviruses we see another pandemic appearing, that of a generalised uncertainty which has become a current form of civilisation’s discontents. Until now hidden by the hopes generated by science, uncertainty is spreading even faster than the virus itself and is creating a crisis within society. There is the uncertainty regarding new variants, uncertainty [...]
Most clinical institutions in Vienna operate primarily in service of the Austrian healthcare system, placing psychoanalysis and the diverse psychotherapy methods in the same category. Whilst providing their services for little to almost no costs, the institution aims for the quick elimination of the symptom, the reduction of stress, suffering and pain as if this [...]
When a kitten is brought to the vet for the first time, the vet will chip it and check that the device works for identification. This chip contains some other information. As I watched the vet do this, I couldn’t help but think that in the near future humans will probably have their own chip. [...]
An uncanny feeling takes hold, while reading the first pages of lesson 18 of Lacan’s Ethics Seminar [1], entitled “The function of the beautiful”. Am I in a time warp? Is this about today, the 24th of February 2022? How is this possible? Lacan asks: “Have we crossed the line […] in what is happening [...]
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, says Miller, but also for our relationship to science as such. What it takes for scientific thought to exist is [...]
But here I must question myself as to what I am at that moment––at the moment, so immediately and so separate, which is that in which I began to dream under the effect of the knocking which is, to all appearances, what woke me. –Lacan, Seminar XI, p. 56. In Bogotá and 300 km away in [...]
If Gabriel García Márquez addresses love in the time of cholera, could there also be hate in the time of coronavirus? With coronavirus, hate also arrives. A hate that is born of fear. A hatred in our relationship to others who have become dangerous for us; a hatred in our relationship to the State and [...]
Thursday, January 27th 2022, marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date decided upon by The United Nations General Assembly in accordance with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Nazi project of extermination of the Jewish population across Europe and other parts of the world was the culmination of a program executed by [...]
Demonic possession can be considered by some, as well as the religious response to it - to purge the body of the devil that occupies it - as a phenomenon of archaic belief, depending on a certain historical soil, rather tinged with obscurantism. Today, however, there is a clear increase in the number of cases[1] [...]
The Lacanian Review (TLR) offered us two fascinating interviews with internationally renowned researchers; the question of black holes was discussed[1]. Recently there was also an interview with a mathematician about singularities in mathematics[2]. I propose here to consider these two terms together: the singularity in black holes. We will see if there are any resonances [...]
