Vol 26 (3/4) 2008
The Changing Subject and Object Positions in the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, or Why the Matrixial Philosophy of Bracha Ettinger leads to the Backwards Glance of Eurydice? – Freddy Decreus
Straight through the Mirror: From Dead Ends to New Roads between Myth and Psychoanalysis – Nadia Sels
Jacques Derrida’s La mythologie blanche: La métaphore dans le texte philosophique, or the Myth and/in the Margin – Matthias Velle
Waltharius’ Witz. A Freudian Analysis of Irony in the Waltharius – Michiel Segaert
In the names of the father: god in lacan, judaic or christian? – Matthew Sharpe
Lacan and Girard: sex and non-violence – Marcus Pound
Lacan and Girard: sex and non-violence
This paper brings together the work of Jacques Lacan, the great Christianizer of psychoanalysis, and René Girard, the speculative anthropologist whose study of sacrifice and myth led not only to his rejection of Freud and Lacan but a dramatic conversion to Catholicism...
In the Names of the Father: God in Lacan, judaic of christian?
This essay challenges the widespread notion that Lacanian psychoanalysis represents a 'Christianising' of psychoanalysis. It argues that Lacanian psychoanalysis brings to psychoanalysis a broadly "Averroist" attitude towards religion which develops out of and...
Waltharius’ Witz. A Freudian Analysis of Irony in the Waltharius
The paper Waltharius' Witz is an analysis of irony in the medieval epic Waltharius, based on Freud's Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten and Der Humor. The intention of this research is to add further nuances to Kratz's model for interpreting the Waltharius...
Jacques Derrida’s La mythologie blanche: La métaphore dans le texte philosophique, or the Myth and/in the Margin
In La mythologie blanche: La métaphore dans le texte philosophique (1971) rekent Jacques Derrida genadeloos af met de westerse, logocentrische vooronderstelling van een metafoorloze metafysica. Via zijn ingenieuze "wet van de supplementariteit" deconstrueert hij de...
Straight through the Mirror: From Dead Ends to New Roads between Myth and Psychoanalysis
Since Freud, psychoanalysis has recognised in mythology its own double: mythology as a discourse that gives voice, albeit encrypted, to the unconscious. In this relationship, psychoanalysis sometimes saw itself in the role of disciple, but more often and more eagerly...
The Changing Subject and Object Positions in the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, or Why the Matrixial Philosophy of Bracha Ettinger leads to the Backwards Glance of Eurydice?
The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has been studied for about three thousand years along the same lines, as would be expected from one of the leading patriarchal foundational narratives of the western imagination: male subject in search of female object to fulfil...