5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – III
3. Horror Movies and the Mirror Image Here’s a horror story in just two sentences: This sends a chill down most spines. The ideas that it plays on - the…
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…
News – July 2013
As previewed on this site a few months ago, PIPOL 6, the European Congress of Psychoanalysis, was held in Brussels on 6th and 7th July. The theme was ‘After Oedipus…
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…
News – June 2013
The inaugural edition of a new journal, Culture/Clinic, published by University of Minnesota Press and edited by Maire Jaanus and Jacques Alain Miller, is now available. As mentioned in last…
News – May 2013
May marked the publication of the official publication of Lacan’s Seminar VI, Desire and its Interpretation, under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller. Since Miller's split from Seuil, the previous publishers…