European Journal of Psychoanalysis

Number 09 – 2018 / 1

Japanese Quality of Amae & Transience

Jhuma Basak

Summary:

The chief exposition of this paper attempts to explore (i) the Japanese concept of amae which indicates the dependency need of a child in the dyad that Takeo Doi explored …
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amae, pre-oedipal, Transience, transition, viewing-together

Reality as Stratification of Surfaces.
The Concept of Transit in Perniola’s Philosophy

Enea Bianchi

Summary:

The aim of this paper is to show in what terms reality can be considered as a stratification of surfaces by developing Mario Perniola’s philosophy of transit. The …
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Amor Fati, Enigma, Eternal Return, Surface, Transit

Techniques for Masturbating
the Impossible Sexual Relationship as Prescribed by Gaspar Noé’s Film “We Fuck Alone”

Viktor Mazin

Summary:

This essay analyzes temporal-spatial differentiation in its relation to autoerotic sexuality. According to Nicolas Abraham, the principle for time/space différance is transfiguration of the interval’s regularity …
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espacement, masturbation, prosthesis, supplément, Time

Organization in the Age of Hysteria

Howard S. Schwartz

Summary:

Civilization and organization require interplay between the spontaneous imaginary and the objective character of the symbolic, but these two are always in tension. Hysteria represents an attempt to end that …
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Civilization, Dark ages, Hysteria, Imaginary, Symbolic

On Ethics: A propos of Antigone

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Lecture held in may 1990, published, in French, in Collège International de Philosophie, ed., Lacan et les philosophes (Paris: Albin Michel, 1991), pp. 21-36.

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