The first few paragraphs of this interesting text seem to deal with questions of teaching, or, more particularly, teaching psychoanalysis. He proposes two methods or techniques. …

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Note: The following text is a recovered transcript (mostly unedited) of a guest lecture given to students in the “Great Books” course at the School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, shortly before the latest Ukrainian-Russian conflict. The Landscape of Death I planned for today to provide you with a…

These are notes relating to the following clinical case presentation from Moustapha Safouan, which appears in English within Returning to Freud: Clinical Psychoanalysis in the School of Lacan, under the title of “Contribution to the Psychoanalysis of Transexualism.” I invite readers to consult this text before reading my notes. Scientific…

There is a possible temptation for analysts to occupy cynical positions by resisting group formations, which means to identify with waste; or, as Jacques-Alain Miller has put it: ‘to have no law but the enjoyment of the One [and] to refuse the bond of love.’ However, this is counterposed to…

Have you noticed that many of the interpretations of the film Don’t Look Up are literalist? The collapse of metaphor implies that one can do nothing but read literally. We can find examples of this most obviously in the popular public reaction to comedians in the United States: increasingly, as…

Georg Lukacs famously claimed that orthodox Marxism should foreground the concept of ‘totality’: “the category of totality, the all-pervasive supremacy of the whole over the parts, is the essence of the method which Marx took over from Hegel and brilliantly transformed into the foundations of a wholly new science.”[1] Totality…

I read multiple times this short text by Eric Laurent on “racism” in Lacan. And then I read Marie-Helen Brousse’s new text. And I compared the two (which I will not do here). I thank one of you in particular — who I will not name because it would incorrectly…

There is always the temptation within American politics to follow a political figure because of the issues to which he or she subscribes. For example, the popular American political philosopher Noam Chomsky has, for many decades, basically instructed us to analyze the content of a given political message against the…