If we begin with the premise that at the very least, nearly all recent psychoanalytic publications, including those in this journal, have availed themselves of generative “artificial intelligence” (any type of AI system capable of generating text, images, or other media in response to user prompts), then we will have said both nothing new and will have provoked a worthwhile and necessar…

Summary: This study looks at the phenomenon of surveillance through AI. The Lacanian big Other is central to this surveillance problem, not only in the paranoiac who assumes that someone is watching him, but also in the way this observer is conceived and where he is located. With the ideas of a “smart city” and “smart homes,” artificial intelligence (AI) is incre…

Summary: In this article I explore the psychoanalytical underpinnings of the recent purchase of the original manuscript of Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom by the French state from the perspective of Jacques Lacan’s concept of perversion. I argue that in declaring de Sade’s book national heritage, the French state has tried to empty the text of its transgressive characteristics…

Summary: Since birth was given…debt(h). What knowledge is taken as.[1] Flight.

Summary: This article offers a new exploration of the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis. It focuses specifically on the clinical potential of both these approaches—and the encounter between them—to transform existing psychotherapeutic models informed by multiple traditions that impact individuals’ psychic wellness and resilience in contexts of war and upheaval. It also ex…

Daniel Tutt, Ph.D., is a philosopher and socialist. His writing and research concerns psychoanalysis, politics and new directions in Marxist and Nietzschean thought. He has taught philosophy at George Washington University, the Washington, DC jail and Marymount University. Tutt is host of Emancipations Podcast and he founded Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics, an extra-academic…

Review of The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred by Todd McGowan, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 240.    Author’s note: This review was written contemporaneously with the murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police in Memphis, Tennessee.

Review of Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents edited by Mary Brady, Routledge, 2022, 235 pp.

Review of Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria by Karima Lazali, Polity, 2021, pp. 272

Review of  Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax by Alenka Zupančič, Fordham, 2023, 88 pp.

Review of Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment by Bret Fimiani, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 249 pp.