Vol 31 (2) 2013
‘Full Metal Jacket’: How Kubrick Staged Fundamental Fantasy, Jouissance and Gaze – Wim Matthys
Melancholy in the Pittura Metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico: An Artistic Oeuvre as Referent in a Psychoanalytical Debate – Joannes Késenne & Filip Geerardyn
Humane Psychiatric Care in De Meander: A Matter of Ethics – Evi Verbeke
Deadlocks and Dangers of the Diagnosis of Psychopathy – Abe Geldhof
“And Honey, I am the World’s Forgotten Boy.” On the Transference of the Unsaid as Becoming – Mekhitar Garabedian & Filip Geerardyn
“And Honey, I am the World’s Forgotten Boy.” On the Transference of the Unsaid as Becoming
In this in-depth interview the Belgian-Syrian artist Mekhitar Garabedian (°1977, Aleppo) and psychoanalyst Filip Geerardyn explore the process of the emergence of subjectivity at stake in the creative oeuvre of the artist. The leitmotiv of this exploration is the...
Deadlocks and Dangers of the Diagnosis of Psychopathy
This paper argues that the diagnosis of psychopathy, promoted by the author of the PCL-R Robert Hare, contains many implicit assumptions. It is not the logic pertaining to the decipherment of the subject's urge to a criminal act that is central within this account,...
Humane Psychiatric Care in De Meander: A Matter of Ethics
This article describes a number of concrete initiatives taken in the De Meander in Melle (near Ghent, Belgium), a psychiatric ward for patients with a mental disability or an acquired brain injury, with the aim of introducing and safeguarding a psychoanalytic ethic....
Melancholy in the Pittura Metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico: An Artistic Oeuvre as Referent in a Psychoanalytical Debate
In this paper an investigation into the psychoanalytic concept of melancholia in relation to the melancholia in the Pittura Metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico (Késenne, 2012) is briefly presented. Special attention is paid to the qualitative research methodology that...
‘Full Metal Jacket’: How Kubrick Staged Fundamental Fantasy, Jouissance and Gaze
This article analyzes Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) in the light of Lacan's concepts of the (fundamental) fantasy, jouissance and the gaze. We criticize McGowan's (2007) thesis that Kubrick's staging of the gaze and fantasy confronts spectators with a...