Vol 22 (2) 2004
To make a Name: The Hero and the Search for the Extimate Kernel – Nadia Sels
Lacanian Psychoanalysis as Fraud: On Desire and the Particular Unruly Signifiers – Dries Roelandts
From Phrase to Fantasy: Roland Barthes and the Knowledge of Imagination – Kris Pint
Automutilation: A Clinical Fragment. Frederic. Who was (I for) my Mother? A Dangerous Quest – Dirk Vandeweghe
On Leonardo, the Two Tables, Peace Doves and Chance: A Dialogue about Art and Psychoanalysis – Filip Geerardyn – Johan Clarysse
On Leonardo, the Two Tables, Peace Doves and Chance: A Dialogue about Art and Psychoanalysis
This dialogue explores four aspects of the work of the Belgian artist Johan Clarysse: (i) the overdetermination or stratification of psychical determinants of plastic work, that is, the differentiation between conscious/preconscious determinants on the one hand and...
Automutilation: A Clinical Fragment. Frederic. Who was (I for) my Mother? A Dangerous Quest
In this article the author reports on his clinical work with a young man who is severely automutilating. Still very young, the patient is not only confronted with the death of his mother but moreover with a dead and unbearable silence about it. If, during...
From Phrase to Fantasy: Roland Barthes and the Knowledge of Imagination
Different approaches to literature in literary theory can often be reduced to Lacan's four fundamental discourses. However, in his later work, Roland Barthes investi¬gates the possibility of another, alternative discourse, namely that of the lover. In this discourse,...
Lacanian Psychoanalysis as Fraud: On Desire and the Particular Unruly Signifiers
By means of two short cases taken from a practice with "special" youngsters, the author illustrates the resilience of the signifier. Fundamental and epistemological problems of psychoanalysis are constantly surfacing in that sort of clinical material and this applies...
To make a Name: The Hero and the Search for the Extimate Kernel
Discussing the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesj, a tale of the quest for immortal¬ity, and digressing from time to time towards the epics of Homer, the author searches for the essence of the literary hero. The psychoanalytic reading offered here does not aim to uncover...