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Lacan lecteur de Sartre et Bataille :  à propos de la souveraineté de l’inutile

Antonio Teixeira [1]Dans sa célèbre Théorie des couleurs (Farbenlehre), de 1791, Goethe s’insurgeait clairement contre l’optique mécaniste héritée de Newton. Goethe s’en prenait au modèle scientifique qui opère à travers la dissolution des qualités perceptives de la lumière, en vue d’appréhender leurs variations chromatiques à partir du calcul mathématique de la longueur d’onde. Il l’importait […]

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Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice – Mary Lynne Ellis & Noreen O’Connor

Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O’Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflections. They highlight how philosophical perspectives on language, embodiment, time, history, and conscious/unconscious experiences can contribute to […]

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Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis – Noreen O’Connor & Joanna Ryan

This book offers the first challenging, systematic, and comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic writings on lesbians and lesbianism available in English. Based on the authors’ clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or universalise all lesbianism. A wide range of psychoanalytic ideas are surveyed, including Freud, […]

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Amour et Savoir : Études Lacaniennes – Kazuyuki Hara

Love and knowledge: these two words have guided me for some time in my reading of Lacan. This book presents eleven articles that demonstrate how the problematics of the intertwinement of the the two terms problem could be linked with the discussions around each theme. The texts were written at different times and for different audiences, and […]

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Y-a-t-il des psychanalystes sans culottes? Philosophie, Psychanalyse, Politique – Bernard Baas

Between philosophy and psychoanalysis, there is no correspondence, if by that we mean the harmonious accord of discourses. “Antipathy of discourse,” stated Lacan.However, if we consider the epistolary meaning of the word, we may affirm that there have been correspondences between them – correspondences that are also reciprocal questioning.  For psychoanalysts can not ignore what […]

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