What is Anxiety? Video Introduction to Lacan’s Theory

10 minute video introducing Lacan’s theory of anxiety as the sensation of the desire of the Other, through the story of the praying mantis he tells in Seminars IX and X, and the example of childhood phobia. By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com All content on LacanOnline.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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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 to confront: the ‘event’ and its ‘affective weight’. Problem 1: The Event – if a certain event or experience is often sought at the aetiology of […]

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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 ‘trauma’ to have been been ascribed to all kinds of experience, from birth, to sex, war, and even to love. Moreover, it sometimes seems that the […]

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