This is simple and useful advice from one of the most famous political advertisers in Latin America. The whole video can be watched here. In September 2015, the 7th American Meeting of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Orientation was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The theme of this meeting was precisely “The Empire of Images”, and [...]
It is a signifier that resonates in the deepest echo-chamber of Europe’s self-understanding, bequeathed to us as it is - along with philosophy, rhetoric and democratic ideals - by the culture of the ancient Greeks. Already there, half a millennia before Christ, ‘barbarism’ was doing a great deal of symbolic work. Certainly it invoked the [...]
A large number of us Argentines have grown up looking at France; perhaps that's the reason why the terrorist attacks last November 13 shocked the country in ways that those in Atocha, Madrid, or on the London buses hadn't in the past. At 7:00 pm all TV channels and radio stations interrupted their programs in [...]
But also how to speak as people living across the Atlantic, removed from the more direct experience of this assault on the citizens of Paris. We nevertheless believe it is important to reaffirm the social bond we feel with the members of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne. From our perspective, the onslaught of November [...]
The first answer that came to mind had to do with historical reasons. To take Paris and France as a target is the reverse of the reactions that were heard across the globe when the attacks were made known. Let’s take President Obama’s televised speech for example. The roots of the alliance between our two [...]
Like many Americans, waiters make me uncomfortable. Their performance of servitude hypostasizes ontological difference, therefore symbolic castration, and as a neurotic, that bothers me. It didn't bother Lacan. He loved barking at waiters. Lacan understood that there is no love and desire without perversion. We can only meet other subjects on the terrain of their [...]
Indeed, Girard opened the door to them. After spending the 1950s as a junior academic in various US institutions, Girard became full Professor at John Hopkins University in 1961, publishing his first monograph Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (1961, translated as Deceit, Desire and the Novel in 1966). This work famously introduced Girard’s theory of [...]
In the 1960's, the Federal government entered the health care industry with the development of Medicare (insurance for the elderly and disabled) and Medicaid, a federal-state collaboration to help insure the needy. Initially rejected by physicians, the steady revenue stream from the federally insured patients helped support the rise of American physician incomes to the [...]
It has been a few months since the UK national elections, and I still cannot help feeling that it was won by the UKIP, with four million votes and counting, whose policies of wanting to withdraw from the EU are well known. The party’s chairman, Nigel Farage, has kept drumming that withdrawal is the only [...]
The article suggests these genomic variants can be associated either to psychiatric illness or to creativity. One of the interesting points made in this both very technical and very specialized study is that it enables us to recognize not only that a genetic architecture that predisposes patients to psychiatric illness also makes them susceptible to [...]
