Summaries
Welcome to our latest regular issue, Volume 11, No. 1. We begin by sharing the outstanding and significant news that long-time EJP core editor, Dr. Thomas Marchevsky, is now an editor-in-chief alongside Fernando Castrillón. Dr. Marchevsky has been functioning in this new role since January of this year, and this new regular issue is the direct result of our combined efforts. We have an …
Summary: While the neuropsychoanalytic field marches ahead, its critics continue to problematize the essential question of the discipline: how does neuroscience, a system of objective knowledge, contribute to psychoanalysis, a system of subjectivity? Critics charge neuropsychoanalysis with not providing a clear formula for toggling between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, leaving the fi…
Summary: In this article I scrutinize John Dall-Aglio’s project of a Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis informed by and inspired on Adrian Johnston’s philosophy of Transcendental Materialism. My aim is to mount a radical Freudo-Lacanian critique on both post-Freudian and neo-Lacanian projects of neuropsychoanalysis claiming that both strands end up psychologizing psychoanalysis and thus betra…
Summary: The inherent contradiction of the concept of ideal shows the gap between the imaginary and symbolic levels of ideals. In the confrontation with the other/Other, there are two paths for the subject. One path leads to a more symbolic ideal and law, the other path ends in an imaginary game of norms. Considering Foucault’s thesis about the historical transformation from a society …
Summary The paper refers to the theoretical understanding of Enrique Pichon-Rivière and Hanna Segal by presenting a brief clinical sequence that focuses on the role of the eyes as a means of communication in the context of projective identification. Pichon-Rivière was one of the founding fathers of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and made a series of theoretical reflections tha…
Summary: (This a revised text originally published as “Italy and Psychoanalysis” in the Journal of European Psychoanalysis (JEP) Volume 5, Spring-Fall 1997). This brief overview of the state of psychoanalysis in Italy describes its development in the country, in particular from the 1970s to the present day, closely relating it to psychoanalysis in the Western world in…
Our previous issue marked an editorial initiative to highlight the global dimensions of EJP. Working in four languages, Spanish, Italian, Russian and English, EJP’s very structure is trans-linguistic. Wanting to make the most of this unique arrangement, we have chosen to feature in this issue five articles in translation. Current and future efforts in this direction fall under the subti…
Summary: It will be the articulation that it induces and supports in order to pass from the signifiance (and from the phallic jouissance) to the object a (and to the plus-of-jouissance) ― and vice versa. I will develop ― in discussion with Néstor Braunstein ― the politics of the letter in connection with the passage from the S1 signifiance to the signifiers properly so called S2, from …
Summary: This complementary text takes up the comments I made concerning the interventions that preceded mine in this conference in tribute to Nestor Braunstein. In it, I emphasize the importance of the signifying link that founds the entire structure of psychoanalysis and all its concepts, in particular the organization of discourses according to Lacan.
Summary: Two crucial hypotheses are discussed in the text Jouissance: A Lacanian Concept, by Néstor Braunstein, in which the author distinguishes three forms of jouissance and analyzes what would be the superego commandment to “jouis” since, according to the author, “jouissance(s) are opposed to and exclude each other.” Finally, I relate Braunstein’s version of the various jouissance(s)…
Summary: Psychoanalysis began with highlighting the importance of the sexual. But between the Freudian sexual, which has become comparable over the course of the rewritings of the Three Essays to “the eros of the divine Plato,” and sexuality, there is a gap that needs to be examined in terms of the social norms that regulate sexual life.
Summary: This conversation, an interview of Sergio Benvenuto by Leonardo Provini originally in Italian, centres on the book by Sergio Benvenuto, Soggetto e masse. La psicologia delle folle di Freud, Castelvecchi, 2022 (The Subject and the Masses: Freud’s Group Psychology). In 1921, a year after the publication of Beyond the Pleasure Principle,[1] Freud published an essay entitled Massen…
Review of The End of Analysis: The Dialectics of Symbolic and Real by Mohamed Tal, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 143
