Vol 30 (4) 2012
Questioning multiculturalism: The critique of Slavoj Žižek in political philosophical perspective – François Levrau
Clinical Case Studies Arthur and Floriane, On the Psychoanalytic Treatment of ‘Learning difficulties’ – Anny Cordié
Under the spell of ‘Spellbound’, The filmic representability of the timeless unconscious. – Filip Geerardyn
How ‘normal’ is ‘pathological’? Psychiatry and clinical psychology as a new means of disciplining. – Paul Verhaeghe
The Subject’s Responsibility: The Beginning and the End of Analysis – David Blomme
How ‘normal’ is ‘pathological’? Psychiatry and clinical psychology as a new means of disciplining.
This contribution originates with a number of problems in the current psychodiagnostic and therapeutic field which give rise to important ethical, clinical and scientific questions: questions that, from a broader social perspective, are interrelated. The criteria for...
Under the spell of ‘Spellbound’, The filmic representability of the timeless unconscious.
The theme of this paper is the filmic representation of psychoanalysis in Hitchcock’s 1945 blockbuster Spellbound. This movie has been received with mixed feelings by psychoanalysts as portraying the psychoanalytic cure in an idealised and simplified way. This matches...
Questioning multiculturalism: The critique of Slavoj Žižek in political philosophical perspective
Nowadays, multiculturalism is the target of a lot of criticism. One prominent critic is the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek and this article will focus on the main points of his critique. The author examines the extent to which his arguments are...
The Subject’s Responsibility: The Beginning and the End of Analysis
Responsibility is a crucial notion in psychoanalysis. This article begins with a discussion of the preliminary sessions and the installation of the supposed subject of knowledge as the clinical moment in which the analysand takes up responsibility for his suffering....
Clinical Case Studies Arthur and Floriane, On the Psychoanalytic Treatment of ‘Learning difficulties’
This article concerns a translation of two case studies from the book Les Cancres n’Existent Pas [Bad Students do not Exist] (1993), in which Anny Cordié interprets the problems children encounter at school in terms of case-specific symptoms functioning within the...