5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – II
2. The Male Exception Case in point: Zodiac, The Usual Suspects, all Bond films, almost all movies about unsolved murders committed by men, and virtually any superhero film of the last…
5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – I
1. The Absent Father Case in point: Man of Steel I start this short series with what is perhaps the most consistently ubiquitous and easily noticeable of all cinematic clichés…
Shades of Subjectivity – IV
About half way through his fifteenth Seminar on The Psychoanalytic Act, Lacan suggests to his audience that Freud’s contribution to a psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity can be summed up in…
Shades of Subjectivity – III
In an attempt to separate subjectivity from identity in the last article, one of the questions we were left with was whether the subject simply exchanges an imaginary alienation (in…
Shades of Subjectivity – II
This is the second of four article on the subject of subjectivity (the first is here). Just as in the last article we opposed subjectivity to objectivity, so…
Shades of Subjectivity – I
This is the first of four articles on subjectivity. Or more precisely, the first on four ‘shades’ of subjectivity because, with so much Lacanian ink having already been spilt…
“The first great Lacanian text not to be written by Lacan himself” – Reading Miller’s ‘Suture’
Suture is a Lacanian concept, but not a concept of Lacan’s. According to Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller’s paper, ‘Suture (Elements of the Logic of the Signifier)’ was “the first great…
A Story from Lacan’s Practice
This is a wonderful story from Lacan's clinic, as told by Suzanne Hommel, who was in analysis with Lacan in 1974. It gives us a rare insight into Lacan's method and…
Reading Lacan – Where to Start?
A few people have contacted me recently via this site asking for suggestions of what to read, either by way of introduction to Lacan or for an alternative perspective on…
Special Appeal – Free Rafah Nached
UPDATE WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2011: RAFAH NACHED HAS BEEN FREED. Announced on French-language news site Lacan Quotidien this evening: Rafah Nached is free! After having been informed that she…