European Journal of Psychoanalysis

1. The End (Fachinelli, Benvenuto, Armando, Webster, Moncayo, Holmes, Tagliapietra)

Freud, Rilke and Transience

Elvio Fachinelli

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In his 1915 essay ‘On Transience’, Freud begins by describing a conversation with a poet (Rilke) and a taciturn friend (Lou Andreas-Salomé). Around that time Freud and Rilke shared …
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Mourning, Pessimism, R. M. Rilke, Transience, War

Freud, the Aim and the End

Sergio Benvenuto

[Italian version at the bottom]

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Machiavelli, Strauss, and the Beginning of the Human World

Luigi Antonello Armando

[Italian original text at the bottom]

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Leo Strauss’s political philosophy is an …
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Astonishment (sbigottimento), Beginning of the world - end of the world, Machiavelli Strauss Freud, Recognition, Terror

On the Question of the Future of Psychoanalysis:
Some Reflections on Jacques Lacan

Jamieson Webster

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Psychoanalysis seems to have become increasingly concerned with the question of its future. What does it mean to speculate about …
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Feminine Desire, J. Lacan, Progress, S. Freud, Temporality

On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School

Raul Moncayo

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This paper explores the connection between identification, the end of analyses, and the question of the analysis of resistance, not only from the …
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Emptiness of Unbeing, End of Analysis, Identification, Repressive Unconscious, Resistance of the Analyst