Amuse-Bouches V – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part II)
In Part I we looked at the history of trauma theory and framed its various debates against the backdrop of two key problems that any theory of trauma has...
News – February 2019
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Amuse-Bouches IV – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part I)
Trauma often appears to be a very broadly-spread notion in psychotherapy. Its urgency in clinical settings seems to outpace the theoretical rigour we can give it, leading the label...
News – January 2019
Among new books released last month was the collection Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious, edited by Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian. Refuting the accusation that...
News – December 2018
Newly-published by Routledge last month was Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam, a new volume edited by Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui. It follows the 2017 international conference organised by...
News – November 2018
Plenty of new books published in the last month, due for release before the end of the year, or newly-announced for the first half of 2019. In November, writer...
News – October 2018
The 2019 Lacan’s Écrits Conference has been announced for 11th-13th October 2019 at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Organized by the Duquesne Psychology Department, it follows the first Lacan’s Écrits Conference...
News – September 2018
Alain Badiou’s Lacan, drawn from his year-long anti-philosophy seminar on Lacan, has now been published by Columbia University Press. In it, Badiou approaches Lacan as one such anti-philosopher, arguing...
News – August 2018
Several new publications are due for release in the coming months. Firstly, coming out on 12th October is a translation of Colette Soler’s Lacan Reading Joyce, courtesy of the...
The Unconscious of ‘Things’
We’re going to start with a naive question – what is the ‘stuff’ of the unconscious? This short article is about the unconscious of ‘things’, and if we think...