Vol 36 (4) 2018 – Écrits
Political logic of numerical community: borromean ones in Lacan and Beckett
This paper reads the political logic of a numerical community in Lacan’s figurations on the One and in Beckett’s novel How It Is (1961). It offers a reading of the collective subject in Lacan’s Borromean logic which allows infinite knotting in the Borromean chain but...
read moreUnconscious structure in Sartre and Lacan
Throughout his career, Jean-Paul Sartre had a contentious theoretical relationship with psychoanalysis. Nowhere is this more evident than in his criticisms of the concept of the unconscious. For him, the unconscious represents a hidden psychological depth that is...
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The clinical interpretation of Don Quixote
In this contribution we take a psychoanalytic look at the novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. We follow the clinical adventures of Don Quixote and the diagnostic interpretations he comes across on his journey. We...
read moreDancing as Delila
This paper starts by addressing a number of common interpretations of love. Initially we recognise a conceptualisation of love as a ‘compatibility degree’, interspersed with an idyllic and rational set of ideas where the other is searched for as a duplicate of...
read moreLe dansêtre – on psychoanalysis and dance
This article tries to provide a few concepts that can be of interest when thinking about dance, a theme that’s been rarely explored within psychoanalytic literature. Based on interviews conducted with professional dancers, we develop the idea of the dansêtre, in...
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Vol 36 (2) 2018 – Nothing less than the object a
Is life but a Pascalian dream? A commentary on Lacan’s louvain lecture
This article provides a detailed commentary on Lacan’s statement that “death belongs to the realm of faith” and relates it to a dream discussed briefly yet repeatedly in his work. This nightmare by one of his patients is qualified by Lacan as ‘Pascalian’, which allows...
read moreThe crack in the image: Virginia Woolf and Jacques Lacan on the limits of personality and the emergence of subjectivity
What is the difference between personality and subjectivity? Are there disciplinary and aesthetic delimitations of both concepts? And if so, what do they look like? These questions are underlying the argument of this paper. In looking for answers, the author turns to...
read moreVol 36 (1) 2018 – Bouwstenen voor het klinisch begrijpen van de alledaagse psychose – Jean-Claude Maleval
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Vol 35 (4) 2017 – Varia
Psychoanalysis: a symptomatic problem
In this article the author explores why psychoanalysts are often seen as troublesome people and why they give so much critique. Foucault stated that in modernity the epistèmè changed: ‘man’ came in the thinking frame and human sciences were born. In his opinion...
read moreThe Violence of Right: Rereading ‘Why War?’
In this contribution, the often neglected correspondence ‘Why War?’ (Freud, 1933b) is presented as the locus classicus of Freud’s account of ‘Right and Violence’. In the discussion with Freud, Einstein’s position appears in the light of Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace....
read moreVol 35 (3) 2017 – Einde van een analyse
In The Course Of Events Everything Will Become Clear: Repetition and Temporality in Lacan’s early Seminars
This paper looks at how the concepts of repetition and temporality were being conceptualised at the early stage of Lacan’s work in terms of his interest in cybernetics, and explores how repetition and temporality were being brought together within the overarching...
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Vol 35 (2) 2017 – Een leven in portretten: Lucian Freuds visuele autobiografie
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Vol 35 (3) 2017 – Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
The plague: Freud, Lacan & the crisis of critique
During its long history, psychoanalytical theory has developed a criticism dealing with almost the entire domain of human culture and civilization. That theory lays bare the unconscious motives and structures which, on the conscious level, can have all kinds of...
read morePsychoanalysis beyond good and evil
The moral criticism of Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil puts the dogmatics behind the philosophy of utilitarianism and deontological ethics at stake. The philosophy of ‘living as art’ and the human rights philosophy are criticised. The subject of autonomy, or the...
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