KRING-LRO: ‘Restlessness’ and – surprisingly – ‘in defense of an immoderate life’: this title requires clarification. It seems to suggest that you disagree with the contemporary discourse that has infiltrated healthcare: relax, slow down, avoid burn-out, finding the ideal balance between work and family, etc., while at the same time there is an increasing regulation [...]
It is an impolitic demand, then, in the sense of not being shrewd or judicious certainly, but also im-political in the sense that the demand corresponds to no traditional political ideal, neither of universality or economic self interest, other than to be treated as one-all-alone. It is a demand to be accorded a special deal [...]
What then has this referendum been about? The people of Britain have spoken, but there is still no clarity about just what it is that they are supposed to have said. We wake up to the news of a country more fractured, more divided than ever before – not just in against out, but also [...]
How does countertransference come to play such a big part of today’s orthodoxy of psychoanalysis? Paul Geltner, a New York based psychoanalyst, who specialises in countertransference phenomena, recently published a book where he speaks frankly about the “uses of feeling” in the analytic practice, although his expertise rests on providing supervision1 . His main focus [...]
Paradoxically, given the profusion of information and possible motives, one faced a breach in knowledge. It was precisely the lack of answers that ultimately emerged as the question itself. This miasma of “senselessness “ is murder in the era of the One All Alone. The shooting has been referred to as the worst act of [...]
Alice in Bed is a play in which Alice James, the sister of trans-Atlantic novelist Henry James and American psychologist William James, remains numb—waiting, petrified in her bedroom. She received the same education as her brothers and yet she does not know what she should do with her wit. She keeps dreaming and the arbitrariness [...]
In different centuries and eras, London has given refuge to the Huguenots, the Jews, the Bangladeshis and the Russian Oligarchs – the latter, the most persecuted group of them all, because they persecute each other. Asylum seekers or economic migrants, why do they choose London? Is it because they do not know that in London [...]
Certainly, in erotic life there are different kinds of fantasies. In the readymade fantasy, the object of my desire is fully substitutable and who my partner really is leaves is indifferent. A single use often suffices to discard him or her in the trash bin. The place of my desire is now taken by the [...]
The main group, DIYBio.org – is an organisation of more than 2000 members across 30 countries, with most of their equipment being simple and easily mistaken for kitchen utensils, while others have put in place advanced community laboratories. They have multiple interests and goals, including biosecurity, developing diagnostic utilities, and even scientific-art, investing specifically in [...]
This turn, from the escabeau to the marketplace, was prefigured by Lacan in his conceptualization of the lathouse in Seminar XVII.2 In 1970, Lacan rightly placed these tiny little objects a where they once were behind every window, but where there was a behind every window there is the ubiquity of the on the screen [...]
