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 [...]

The axis of work of the Tenth Study Days of the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise on “The Analytic Act and Civilization” at once raises the question about the relationship of our work as analysts with [...]

My first online session was indeed an analytic experience. Even though I consider myself very literate in all kinds of media, I was somehow skeptical about a virtual psychoanalytical session. I’ve been using technology since [...]

“Tailor” is the first movie by Sonia Liza Kenterman. It narrates the story of Nikos, a middle-aged tailor, working at his father’s tailor shop in Athens, trying to make ends meet in a difficult situation. [...]

Kierkegaard, who, according to Lacan, was “the most acute of the questioners of the soul”[1] before Freud, was beset, as he himself testifies, by a problem: “whether repetition is possible, and what it means, whether a thing wins or [...]

In March of 1974 Lacan delivered a lecture in Milan that was premonitory in referring to a threat that no one was paying much attention to at the time. He addressed himself to an audience [...]

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 [...]

Acceptance/rejection: this pair of polar terms describes the dominant way of dealing with the otherness of jouissance in public discourse, to locate it somewhere. However, if we look closely at the way acceptance and rejection [...]

In a recently published book, in Hebrew, called Criss Cross - Psychoanalysis, Art and Culture [1], one chapter, written by Rony Alfandary and titled Vishniac the Lone Photograph, was devoted to the Russian-American photographer Roman [...]

This year in June, France passed a new bioethics law. This law allows fertility treatment for all women under the age of 43 from now on. In this case, "all" women means that in the [...]

Lacan demonstrates in his Seminar The Sinthome that the Joycean text concerns the letter. Here the letter is not a vehicle for truth or desire nor the material basis for the signifier. It is a [...]

Chess has never been very popular in the Western world. Chess geniuses, on the contrary, have always drawn public attention. Something otherworldly about these unusual masterminds catches our interest. What price has to be paid [...]

How are we to understand Lacanian action today? When does a practice oriented analytically become Lacanian action? In the first place, we should situate the contrast between the term "action" and the term "act", two [...]

A group of people active in the field of justice, education, the police, the magistracy and health care have been organizing a monthly workshop on Lacanian criminology in person since 2004. The workshop consists of [...]

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 [...]

When I encounter, especially with young subjects, a sentence that begins with "I talked to ...", I find myself sometimes asking, 'did the conversation take place in presence, by phone, or in writing?' It seems [...]

In the domestic landscape of the “internet of things,” one thing is clear: it is not so much the smart TV, the biometric wristwatch, or your car’s new AI that constitutes one in a series [...]

This text was written in response to an article by D. Bishop and J. Swendsen in the BJPsych Bulletin, which slandered Lacan and his students. Addressed in English to the Bulletin, the present text did [...]

"Be Happy, Eat, Drink, Repeat." These five words constitute the printed slogan of a recycling bag by a well-known take-away franchise coffee shop selling, among other things, beverages and fast food. During the pandemic, one [...]

With spring, hope springs up and announces that soon we will have made it, soon we will have arrived in a "new normality", which will not be a post-Corona normality. Corona will continue to be, [...]

The cancel culture would like to erase certain imaginary references that allowed children to be told what cannot be said about horror. If Prince Charming's kiss can no longer be inscribed, since Sleeping Beauty or Snow White [...]

Lacan concludes his lecture "The Third" (1974) with a sentence that remains as topical as ever: "the future of psychoanalysis is something that depends on what will come out of the Real, namely if gadgets, [...]

The plotters make plots and keep quiet about them. Those who talk about them, even if it means inventing them, are called conspiracy theorists [comploteurs]. A real plot is a matter of politics; the conspiratorial narrative is of another [...]

In 1985, Neil Postman published his magnificent essay "Amusing ourselves to death", in which he wondered whether the future of the world would have the grim face of Orwell's prophecy, the society of absolute control, [...]

One of the aims of the ‘Preface’ to The Phenomenology of Spirit is to guide the reader as to the position he should maintain in the philosophical experience. Hegel’s technical recommendations seem to me highly [...]

In the field of analysis and in the field of love one is dealing with something lebendig. This German word is ambiguous. On the one hand, it refers to a living organism in contrast to [...]

...Continued from LRO 298 (26th May 2021)... This new relationship is due to several factors, the first of which is the evaporation of the Name, following the collapse of the place of the symbolic father, [...]

I believe that it is inoperative to say that there are no races. For there to be no races, for us to be able to say “we men,” there would have to be the Other [...]

"Wie es wird, wie sich das Weib."[1] Throughout his teaching, Freud referred to femininity as an enigma.  He spoke of woman's sexuality as a dark continent. And in his letter to Marie Bonaparte, he wrote [...]

This expression “body event”, as defining the symptom, can be found in the text Lacan submitted for inclusion in the proceedings of the 5thInternational Joyce Symposium in 1975, under the title “Joyce the Symptom”.[2]Here is [...]

Image credit: "Las dos Fridas" (1989; Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas) by Pedro Marinello. Further details at: http://english.yeguasdelapocalipsis.cl/ “I don’t think I was born for love, I invent love for others”, says Pedro Lemebel after [...]

In his last Seminar, The Moment to Conclude, Lacan says the following: "The Symbolic is language: we learn to speak and it leaves traces […], consequences that are nothing other than the sinthome and analysis consists […] in realising why [...]

Image credit: Hermaphrodite endormi, resting on a mattress specially sculpted by Bernini. Roman work discovered in 1608, life-size marble, Louvre Museum. The storm has broken. The trans crisis is upon us. Trans people are in [...]

The Other is needed to construct a body, for a body is not something that we can take for granted. Freud’s hysterics ‘have a body’, which transmits a message from an other to the other, [...]

Sunday 21 March, 2021   Jacques-Alain Miller: My dear Éric Marty, I thought I would start with a little ‘speech’ [in English in the original]. Your book, I received it last Wednesday with a dedication [...]

In the sixth lesson of the Seminar Identification,[1] Lacan starts his elaboration on the difference between the proper name and the common name. Unlike Stuart Mill and Sir Alan Gardiner, he identifies the specificity of [...]

Violence is part of our contemporary world and the classifications with which crimes are named are expanding and diversifying. Crimes transcend gender, race, and age, but some take on the particularity of targeting a specific [...]

In relation to the psychotic subject, practice among many (La pratique à plusieurs) may initiate three effects (2, 3). First, generate a division, as the one we speak of when we speak of the divided [...]

I start with an observation in order to formulate a hypothesis: there is a red thread running from end to end through a series of texts, courses and interventions by Jacques-Alain Miller, a thread that [...]

The texts collected in this volume stem from the period of time between the beginning of March and the end of June 2017. These were four vertiginous months that started with what Jacques-Alain Miller described [...]

The Aims of Analysis: Miami Seminar on the Late Lacan, a book by Thomas Svolos published by Midden Press, represents a doubly auspicious moment: the Lacanian Compass, in the US, has its own publishing house, [...]

This Is Us is a fictional television series that portrays the life of a middle class family in the United States. Its title evokes a misunderstanding that is itself a particular reflection on contemporary American [...]

“There are only different ways to fail, some of which are more satisfying than others. We are not simply having a laugh here, it’s not just a Witz. It is the condition for holding one’s [...]

For those who question the feminine, the history of feminism is an inescapable teaching, both clinical and political. By publishing online the text of Annie Le Brun’s memorable intervention in the TV show “Apostrophes”, Lacan [...]

What does the speech of women teach us in the age of #MeToo? The concrete enunciation of women’s public declarations concerning the question of sexual assault has hit its target and made the news. This [...]

Rush Limbaugh died on Thursday 17th of February of tongue cancer due to his heavy smoking. Limbaugh was a well-known radio presenter with ties to the Republican Party. His voice was always provocative (as described [...]

In 1915, at the request of the German Goethe General Federation, Sigmund Freud wrote a short text, whose poetic beauty and depth of thought allow it to be considered among the best of his immense [...]

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 [...]

When you are going to encounter a psychoanalyst, you encounter a partner – a new partner you have not encountered in your life and with whom you are going to play a new part (partie). [...]

Urgency is a hole in time, it is the time of eternalization. When a traumatic event breaks through, perplexity arises, regardless of the structural diagnosis. The subjective response will come afterwards. Urgency is a time [...]

During the eighties, David Icke was a famous sports presenter on the BBC. Shortly after leaving that post, he suffered an episode of epiphanic revelation on the Isle of Wight. Later, after being caught in [...]

In the final chapters of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", does the protagonist relate to an experience that might resemble that of the Pass? The part that caught my ear is the title of [...]

The experience of confinement, as an effect of the coronavirus pandemic, is having an impact on the subject.  The artist Rosemary Cassidy Buswell (1) shows us, in this regard, how to deal with this real [...]

We know that at the end of his life Freud was left with at least one unresolved enigma, that of female sexuality: I do not know what a woman wants, he said. Having unraveled the [...]

“The analyst too must pay,” said Lacan in “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power.” [1] Pay with his words. Pay with his own skin. With his persona, when he lends [...]

Since the start of the pandemic we have not stopped receiving news about different mental disorders linked to it. First, we discover the syndrome of cabin fever, that push to stay locked up. With the [...]

Awoken from a dream, a question imposes itself on me: what is the colour of psychoanalysis? It echoes childhood memories where lively, vibrant colours marked my mother’s desire as she covered me with them. Once, [...]

“Domestic Terrorism”, Hillary Clinton wrote on her Twitter account referring to the hordes Trump sent to the Capitol last Wednesday. From everything I’ve read about it, that diagnosis seems spot on. Terrorism can be practiced [...]

Gerado Réquiz is an AMS (Analyst Member of the School) of the WAP and of the NEL. He currently resides in Madrid, Spain. Interview conducted by Cristina Vírseda. Image credit – J. Diaz. …. Lacan’s [...]

In the third section of Seminar XXIII: The Sinthome, titled by Jacques-Alain Miller “The Invention of the Real”,[1] and especially in its middle chapter, “On Sens, Sex and the Real” – itself an elaboration of [...]

The US elections have confirmed what the pandemic had already shown in the open: that hatred works today as a passion that groups people into bubbles, segregating them from one another. Freud's thesis in his [...]

On 4 September 2020, a balmy late summer evening in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, more than twenty people from the Initiative Wien met to read three of the Introductory Lectures that Sigmund Freud gave in [...]

Does anyone remember the golden age of confinement, when humanity believed itself to be One in universal love? Many saw the omen of redemption, the promise of a historic rectification: we would be reborn in [...]

It is as a psychoanalyst that I am invited to this conference. It is technology that makes possible my presence with you today for this debate in Turin. I could content myself with that. But [...]

Freud distinguished between two basic experiences of the psychic apparatus: one is the experience of satisfaction (1905;1920), and the second is of pain (1895). In his Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895), Freud identified the [...]

As part of the preparatory work for the forthcoming Study Days of the School* I remembered a text by Karl Abraham, which I had read a long time ago. It is an audacious and provocative [...]

In an article in Science, researchers developed a system whereby artificially created DNA barcodes can be dispersed in environmental objects, including food products.[1] This practice is starting to be used in food safety, for example [...]

As I am not a political analyst, I immerse myself with profane curiosity in the fascinating phenomenon of the US elections. “American democracy hangs by a thread” was the title that Umair Haque gave to [...]

Feminine masochism is an issue that has often been addressed. It will not be my point. But there is an incidental remark in the comments that Lacan makes on several occasions and which has caught [...]

It’s been almost a year since it all started. We have experienced strangeness, fear and anguish, anger, love, solidarity and grief. Now, at the beginning of autumn – and without the summer light – sadness [...]

The obsessional is guilty. He is a “big criminal”. Mainly because he enjoys too much. This unavoidable guilt lodged in the structure is to be distinguished from the legal conviction of an individual for such [...]

The School: Woman, Subject, of the Cartel, Symptom, Knowledge, Knot, Cause, Refuge, Work in Progress, of the Pass… The predicates multiply themselves, constituting a sufficiently Borgesean labyrinth that invites one to lose oneself in what [...]

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people disappear without trace. In police stations around the world there are lists of people who have been reported missing and who will never be found. The causes are [...]

Science is in the process of substituting itself for religion, and it is still more despotic, obtuse and obscurantist. There is an atom God, a space God, etc. If science or religion wins, psychoanalysis is [...]

On September 26th, 1960, the first televised presidential debate in the history of the United States was held. It was between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. For the first time in history, the candidates [...]

During confinement, we experienced absent bodies from a distance. We experienced that the notions of proximity, distance, and border between self and other were insufficient to account for presence. Near, far, social distancing, blurring (an [...]

It has been six months since the arrival in Europe of this epidemic, about which we have heard everything and nothing. And it’s far from over. However, the famous “next world” is taking shape. In [...]

An elaboration on the essay by Jeannne Wolff Bernstein, “The Spanish Flu, Covid-19 and Sigmund Freud – What can we learn from history?”(1) There is the real of the virus, an element that is at [...]

If God exists, he certainly invented sex to torment us. But then again, he was the first to be bothered: Zeus did nothing other than to cast a spell on ravishing mortals, and after him, Christ chose [...]

Freud studied the three great factors that cause discontent in human beings: the action of nature, one's own body, the relationship with others. Today it is urgent to bring the first up to date, because [...]

15.06.20   Before the pandemic and the closure of schools, I was clinically working with 4 to 12 year-old children mostly at their school environment. After the government’s decision to close the educational establishments, I [...]

The word "carrion" rings a bell when you are French. That is precisely what happened while I was listening to the London Society of the NLS Online Reading[i] of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XVII[ii], Chapter 12, by Despina [...]

“[…] because I want to go out someday to the street, and soon, without dying.” The kiss of the spider woman, Manuel Puig     Martin wrote two letters to his father in October 1918, [...]

Above the auditorium near my house in Haifa, ordinarily a stage for cultural events, a huge sign continues to soar, reading “culture will win”. The sign carries both the outcry of the deserted venue, its [...]

After many days since the implosion of everyday life, I find myself looking for how to make room for the discontinuity in the discontinuity, how to obtain what a colleague –in the first series of [...]

In our world, the world of Lacanian psychoanalysis, we sometimes talk about the decline in the power or the impact of the symbolic order as a defining characteristic of our time, and the corollary rise [...]

Doing Zoom I want to deeply thank the Council for making this night possible amidst this colossal horror named Covid19. Re-taking the floor in the School, traversed by this planetarium pandemic and affected by the [...]

The perspective I chose for the Conversation organized by the Council under the title “School in Times of Pandemic”, occurred to me based on the latest events that arose within the World Association of Psychoanalysis. [...]

This last week in Houston, the mayor ordered the removal of three statues from public parks in time for Juneteenth: two Confederate memorials and one of Christopher Columbus. Juneteenth is a state holiday in Texas, [...]

Jorge Assef by Luz Saint Phat   "The United States are burning", this was one of the headlines shown in the news these days in different places around the world to portray the scale and [...]

 Killing me softly with his song Killing me softly [1]   It is a theme inscribed in the preparations of our Study Days on the sexual assault: the intimate unveiled. The expression in its simplicity implies a [...]

As the reports of Edward Colston’s statue being pulled down from the plinth in Bristol have started to reach us, our memories were still fresh with a similar scene occurring in Baghdad at the beginning [...]

In an analysis, the subject comes to speak about what doesn't work, what bothers him, makes him obsessed or anxious. Something of his jouissance is opaque to him. Once the Subject Supposed to Know is [...]

Affect and Contract That the Law gives way to affect, surprises. Nothing seems further from the Law than the register of affects. One signs a contract. One cannot say the next day: “I no longer [...]

For an analytic session, there is no criterion for success or accuracy: one can only say that it took place. It took place if it produced a certain effect, an effect which is not calculable [...]

In my latest book "Unconscious 3.0" I have dedicated some reflections to the use of technologies in the service of the denial of death. The famous episode of the Black Mirror series entitled "Be Right [...]

* Recently, when I speak to friends or someone tells me about the toughness of these times, when the conversation ends this expression always comes to me, and it is not clear whether I want [...]

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 [...]

About The Other Side of Bio-politics. A Writing for Jouissance, by Éric Laurent.[1] Subversion The Other Side of Bio-politics,[2] a title too Foucauldian? That was my question for a moment. But in reading the introduction [...]

How should we read the film Melancholia,[1] whose visual power and meticulous aesthetics captivate our eyes so? And whose music – the overture from Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan and Iseult – makes our ears tremble [...]

Psychoanalysis? In the 21st century? In the era of neuroscience and medical imagery? Psychoanalysis? Dragging along its cortege of mummy and daddy, St. Oedipus and all the normative nonsense in the epoch of gender studies [...]

Limits! This claim, heard everywhere, resonates in school and in the family, among parents and teachers. Limits, more limits! Does the lack of limits derive from the decline of the paternal function? There is no [...]

On the basis of Television, we must distinguish between a clinic of moral cowardice and a clinic of the rejection of the unconscious. In the first case, what is in question is a subject defined [...]