Vol 43 (1) 2025
THE ORDINARY OBJECT OF AUTHORITY Jonas Borer
KINSHIP AND NACHTRÄGLICHKEIT Laura Chernaik
DAS DING AND THE LURE OF THE MONSTROUS Oliver Cutler
THE STAIN AND THE LAYING DOWN OF THE GAZE THROUGH THE ART OF PAINTING Dewi Dynoodt
FREEDOM IN THE IMPASSE OF A SELF-CONTRADICTORY DESIRE Rafael Holmberg
VECTORS OF NON-RELATION: LACAN’S SEMINAR XX, ‘SCHEMA OF JOUISSANCE’ Derek Hook
QUESTIONING EX-SISTENCE: ON THE VOID IN THE REAL AND THE UNIMAGINABLE Pablo Lerner
A LACANIAN APPROACH OF MELANCHOLY: THE CASE OF ALFRED DE MUSSET Sophie Marret-Maleval
THERAPY AT THE END OF THE WORLD: BRINGING PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY TO LIFE Rishab Nathan
ELEGANT SOLUTIONS TO PSYCHOSIS Mickaël Peoc’h
LACAN TODAY. LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS BEYOND THE COUCH. ON APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS. Evi Verbeke
CODA
AND FOR NOW SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT… David Schrans
GEDICHT Margot de Sloover
LACAN TODAY LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS BEYOND THE COUCH ON APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS
Abstract: This article explores the contemporary relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis within institutional settings. It argues that the distinction between applied and pure psychoanalysis has become less strict. When we think about analytical work in institutions,...
ELEGANT SOLUTIONS TO PSYCHOSIS
Abstract: In 1958, Lacan considered that the end of Schreber’s delusion revealed the lines of efficacy of an ‘elegant solution’. Although it is relatively common in Lacanian psychoanalysis to use the term ‘subjective solution’, Lacan’s original proposal has been...
THERAPY AT THE END OF THE WORLD: BRINGING PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY TO LIFE
Abstract: This paper reflects on the complex interplay between societal crises, practical solutions, and philosophical thought, questioning the prevailing approaches to addressing systemic issues. Engaging with thinkers of continental philosophy and the psychoanalytic...
A LACANIAN APPROACH OF MELANCHOLY: THE CASE OF ALFRED DE MUSSET
Abstract: After trying to formalize the clinic of melancholy with Lacan’s latest teaching and showing how it can provide indicators as regards the diagnosis of ordinary psychosis, by pointing to the melancholic ground of all psychoses, I will illustrate, with the case...
QUESTIONING EX-SISTENCE: ON THE VOID IN THE REAL AND THE UNIMAGINABLE
Abstract: This article revolves around the question of how the real should be conceptualized. More specifically, it argues that the real should be defined not solely vis-à-vis the symbolic, as that which resists symbolization, but equally vis-à-vis the imaginary, as...
VECTORS OF NON-RELATION: LACAN’S SEMINAR XX ‘SCHEMA OF JOUISSANCE’
Abstract: How might we read and apply Lacan’s under-utilized schema (or ‘graphicization’) from the eight session of Seminar XX? This paper draws on a series of reference-points in Freud’s work as a means of explaining both the three (R – I, I – S, and S – R) vectors...
FREEDOM IN THE IMPASSE OF A SELF- CONTRADICTORY DESIRE
Abstract: In the last century, a misleading opposition has emerged between freedom and restriction, or more properly between individual desire and social structures. Deleuze, and the anti-psychiatric movement more generally, defended the notion of a ‘free desire’...
THE STAIN AND THE LAYING DOWN OF THE GAZE THROUGH THE ART OF PAINTING
Abstract: This paper explores the concept of the gaze as object a, as elaborated by Lacan in his 11th seminar, with a particular emphasis on the split between the eye and the gaze. It also examines the functions of the stain, trompe l’oeil, and dompte-regard within...
DAS DING AND THE LURE OF THE MONSTROUS
Abstract: In this article, we present a reading of the desire staged in the British science fiction film Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer, 2013, UK). We argue that the dark lair in which the central character (an alluring alien played by Scarlett Johansson)...
KINSHIP AND NACHTRÄGLICHKEIT
Abstract: In my practice, I often say to patients and supervisees, “what isn’t processed in the psyche is expressed in the body and in action”. But, in what ways is this psychic processing different to or related to expression in the body and in action? How do we move...
THE ORDINARY OBJECT OF AUTHORITY
Abstract: Drawing on Jacques Lacan’s thoughts on the perverse Discourse of the University and Slavoj Žižek’s conception of the Sublime Object of Ideology, I attempt to develop a materialist understanding of authority. This paper presents parts of the conceptual...