PLINY, SOCRATES, LACAN: DIALOGICAL RESPONSES TO TYRANNICAL AUTHORITY
Summary: A letter to Tacitus from Pliny the Younger discusses length and brevity in forensic oratory. Pliny appears to argue in favor of length, but the letter’s deliberate ambiguities illuminate his larger theme as the responsibility of judicial rhetoric to shape the...
HOW THE LETTER WORKS: LACAN AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORICAL THEORY
Summary: Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory prominently features metaphor and metonymy as analytic concepts, especially in its theory of psychosis. This essay suggests that propriety, or decorum, might broaden the Lacanian engagement with the field of rhetoric and...
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ZENUWEN EN DE KUNST VAN HET MOTORONDERHOUD: HET ONDERWEG ZIJN VAN OLIVER SACKS
Dit artikel onderzoekt in een epistolaire stijl de verhouding tussen het verlangen en het weten in het autobiografische werk van de Britse neuroloog Oliver Sacks. In een fictieve briefwisseling tussen de auteur en Sacks wordt er ingegaan op de positie die deze laatste...
DE HIK, TUSSEN HET GENOT VAN HET WOORD EN HET GENOT VAN HET LICHAAM
Samenvatting: De taal verknoopt zich met het lichaam in het symptoom. Vraag is op welke manier we deze symptomatologie, tussen het genot van het woord en het genot van het lichaam, kunnen horen en interpreteren. Aan de hand van twee casussen uit de filmgeschiedenis...
ON THE ‘ABSENT CAUSE’ IN FREUD’S POLITICAL THEORY: MASS PSYCHOLOGY AT 100 YEARS
Abstract: This commentary of Freud’s seminal essay from 1921, Mass-psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, celebrating the 100th anniversary of its publication, is an experiment in reading the text and assessing its problems at the intersection of several...
FREUD’S MASS PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: PSYCHOANALYSIS, POLITICS AND POPULISM IN THE AGE OF POST-TRUTH
Abstract: This year marks one century from the first publication of Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud. What has been the importance of this text for social and political inquiry diachronically? What is its relevance today? It is to these two...
CINEMA’S PARANOID TENDENCIES
Summary: Many theorists have championed absence within and without the filmic image as a site of cinematic radicality, but it is possible for absence to hide an obscure authority. When this occurs, filmic absence functions as a support for the development of paranoia....
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WAAR EEN GOD IS, IS EEN WEG… ZO GOD HET WIL DJINNS, BOZE OGEN EN CULTURELE REPRESENTATIES OP DE DIVAN
Samenvatting: Inshallah – als Allah het wil –, zijn hoogstwaarschijnlijk de woorden die het vaakst over de lippen van heel wat moslims rollen. Deze uitspraak legt het lot in handen van God, wat we in de praktijk vaststellen in de observatie dat veel patiënten een...
Vol 38 (2) 2020 – Jaloezie
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Vol 38 (1) 2020 – Psychoanalyse en het Duitse Idealisme
Hegel and Lacan: subject, substance and their impossible relation
In this article, we are firstly going to reread Lacan's famous formula of the subject. This formula, “A signifier represents the subject for another signifier”, remains in some respects opaque to say the least. Lacan, however, will not cease to repeat it throughout...
Vol 37 (4) 2019 – Varia
Vol 37 (3) 2019 – Lacanian Psychoanalytic Technique Today
Mouth at rest: notes on silence as psychoanalytic technique
Psychoanalysis is a process that works with discourse, language, and speech. “Nothing takes place in psychoanalysis,” wrote Freud in his introductory lectures, “but an interchange of words between the patient and the analyst” (1916, p.17). Of course, Lacan also...
Suggestion and transference
Both Freud and Lacan distance themselves from any use of suggestion in analysis. Nevertheless, Lacan remarks in “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power” both that there is a connection between suggestion and transference and that Freud was...
Vol 37 (2) 2019 – [Humane] [Psychiatrische] [Zorg]
Werken in een poel van angst en onmacht. Naar een herstel van de hulpverlener.
Psychiatrie wordt gekenmerkt door veel dwang en de herstelbeweging krijgt weinig vaste grond in de dagelijkse praktijken. In dit artikel probeert de auteur te begrijpen waarom. Hulpverleners geven aan dat ze angst en onmacht ervaren in confrontatie met psychisch...
Plaveien goede bedoelingen de weg naar de hel? Over het goede, dwang en drang in ‘het kleine samenleven’
Patiënten en hulpverleners getuigen soms over situaties waarin hulpverlening een ‘hel’ werd. Patiënten vaak omdat ze dwang- en drangmaatregelen moeten ondergaan, hulpverleners omdat ze steeds meer in richtingen worden gedwongen die ze niet willen. Ondanks goede...
Vol 37 (1) 2019 – Varia
De resonantie van de stilte
Het spreken over de stilte is op zich al een paradox. Kunstenaars hebben deze paradox op hun eigen manier pogen te benaderen. Eerst maken we een rondgang langs de veelzijdigheid van het begrip stilte. Dan wordt nagegaan hoe de stilte gehanteerd wordt in de...
Vol 36 (4) 2018 – Écrits
Ex-machina: sex, knowledge, and artificial intelligence
This paper investigates the relationship between sex and knowledge and its manifestation in the development of Artificial Intelligence. With the concept of the extimate uncanny I analyse the status of the robotic companion as emblematic of the Lacanian non- existent...
The subject and the lie: from méconnaissance to mensonge
In this paper the author discusses Lacan's changing theory of the subject in the early texts of the Écrits and relates it to the notion of “the lie” in psychoanalysis. As Lacan’s view of the subject shifts form the Imaginary to the Symbolic, the source of man’s...
Vol 36 (3) 2018 – Over dans-, schrijf- en spreekwezens
Talking about trauma: could I, would I, should I?
In this article, we discuss the current clinical guideline in trauma treatment which proscribes putting traumatic events into words. Via Lacan’s registers of the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic, we consider an alternative understanding of trauma in which...
Vol 36 (2) 2018 – Nothing less than the object a
Lacan’s object small a: an elephant in the room
This paper investigates the key question in Žižek’s article “The joke of psychoanalysis”, published in this edition of Psychoanalytische Perspectieven. This key question concerns what Lacan saw as the fundamental distinction between psychology and psychoanalysis,...
The joke of psychoanalysis
Lacan's notion of "objet a" designates the paradox of an object which gives body to a surplus over all determinate objects, an object which gives body to a lack constitutive of desire. What happens with this object at the end of the psychoanalytic treatment? The text...
Vol 36 (1) 2018 – Bouwstenen voor het klinisch begrijpen van de alledaagse psychose – Jean-Claude Maleval
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Vol 35 (4) 2017 – Varia
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Vol 35 (3) 2017 – Einde van een analyse
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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
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