Although Lacan's notion of "university discourse" circulates widely today, it is seldom used in its precise meaning (designating a specific "discourse," social link). As a rule, it functions as a ...

I’ve just received galleys for one of the books I’m most excited about for fall: “Lacan at the Scene” by Henry Bond. The author takes crime-scene photographs from the nineteen-fifties (some quite ...

Give him these forty-five minutes and he’ll turn your mind inside out. It’s up to the viewer to decide whether this result is desirable. In a filmed lecture from 1974, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan ...

My first week with my new kitten Evelyn has reminded me of French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan’s discussion of the childhood game Hide-and-Seek or in Freud’s parlance “fort/da” — an ...

Psychoanalysis is a field of psychology that explores the unconscious mind, and how it shapes human behavior and experience. One of the most prominent figures in the history of psychoanalysis is ...

In psychanalyse a two part documentary the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his soninlaw JacquesAlain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot The Office de ...

[Editor’s Note: Spoiler Alert – The ending of Source Code is mentioned in this piece.] “We have only to understand the mirror stage as an identification, in the full sense that analysis gives to the ...