Number 17 – 2022/1

Autistic Rims and Their Vicissitudes

  • Leon Brenner
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    According to Lacan, the rim of the drive is involved in the initiation and preservation of the relationship between the body and …
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    General Model of the Psychic Being within a Transformative Theory of Rationality

  • Lutz Goetzmann
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    This paper presents a model of  psychological relationships within the framework of transformative rationality, as being embedded in Hegel’s philosophy of mind. It is based on Laplanche’s fundamental …
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    The Crux of the Matter: Lacan’s Dialectical Materialism of the Signifier

  • Florian Endres
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    Is the signifier real? Is it ontologically different from matter? How does one affect the other? This article examines the particular materialism developed by Lacan via his references …
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    Orgasming into the Fire / Evacuating into the Abyss: A Pith Extraction on Listening to the Body as the World in Psychoanalysis

  • Stephen Mosblech
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    Logic is a form of stupidity that separates each event from itself through the condition of opposites until everything is a living mirror.

     

     

    Orgasming into …
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    With Lacan: a Novel, a Play and a Testimony

  • Betty Milan
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    This article considers the trajectory of the author’s experience from being in analysis with Lacan in Paris in the 1970s through its narrative representations in …
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    “I Feel Love”: A Musical-Psychoanalytic Meditation

  • Chiara Bottici and Guilherme Massara Rocha
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    This article approaches the themes of love and eroticism by combining philosophical, psychoanalytic, and musical sources. Beginning with Ficino’s statement that we all love badly and “continovamente”, we …
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    Book Review Essay: Through the Looking-Glass Darkly. On “Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering, and Satisfaction” by Darian Leader

  • David Lichtenstein
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    Review of  Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering, and Satisfaction by Darian Leader, Routledge, 2021 138 pp.

     

    As I write this, we are witnessing the invasion of Ukraine ordered by President Putin. …
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    Book Review Essay: “Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations” by Richard Frankel and Victor J. Krebs

  • Nicolle Zapien
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    Review of  Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations by Richard Frankel and Victor Krebs, Routledge, 2021 286 pp.

     

    Frankel and Krebs (2021) have put forth a timely …
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    Book Review Essay: The Ecstasies of Deconstruction: On “The Deconstruction of Sex” by Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh

  • Benedetta Todaro
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    Review of Deconstruction of Sex by Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh, Duke University Press 2021 120 pp.

     

    The Deconstruction of Sex is the transcript of a conversation on the topic of …
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