We are used to seeing the everyday as an ordinary aspect of life, something that we need to “overcome”; whereas it actually plays a crucial role in any event of our lives. This highly original book engages with a range of thinkers and texts from across the fields of phenomenology, psychoanalysis and critical theory, including […]
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De nombreux penseurs du XXe siècle ont ouvert des voies pour penser des points de croisements entre phénoménologie et psychanalyse dans les champs psychanalytique, philosophique et psychiatrique. Cet ouvrage interdisciplinaire offre un panorama des recherches actuelles dans le prolongement de ces travaux. Il réunit les contributions françaises et internationales de psychiatres, psychanalystes, chercheurs en psychanalyse […]
Michel Foucault a entretenu avec la psychanalyse une liaison tumultueuse, faite d’attraction et de rejet. Fasciné par l’œuvre de Freud dans laquelle il reconnaît la rupture essentielle qu’elle représente avec la psychiatrie et la médecine de la fin du XIXe siècle, le philosophe devient, à partir des années soixante-dix, résolument critique. Dispositif disciplinaire contrôlant les […]
“Este livro é uma verdadeira festa de filologia. Dessa digna e grisalha disciplina, Cláudio Oliveira extrai o melhor: uma atenção erudita e ao mesmo tempo inventiva ao detalhe escrito assim como a convicção de que num tal detalhe não mora nem o Diabo nem Deus, mas, antes, aquela gratuita, livre, embora exigente, força de transcender […]
Em seu novo livro, o psicanalista e professor do Instituto de Psicologia da USP Christian Dunker realiza uma abordagem original sobre o mal-estar, o sofrimento e o sintoma na sociedade brasileira. Unindo teoria social e psicanálise, o autor conclui que a privatização do espaço público transforma a própria vida em formas de condomínio, com seus […]
Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler reminded me of something very important and unsettling: I have a brush with madness every night. Most of us do – when we dream. Or fall in love; or write poetry; or free-associate. Madness resides within all speaking beings and erupts in the most ordinary activities. In fact, ordinariness, rationality, […]
« L’écho de l’immémorial » est une formule évidemment paradoxale. Le paradoxe tient en ceci que l’écho serait le retour, dans une procédure de réminiscence, de cela – l’immémorial – qui justement échappe par principe à la réminiscence. C’est ce paradoxe qu’ont soutenu, chacun à leur manière, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe et Jacques Lacan : comment penser […]
The book “Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after the Decade of the Brain,” consists of two contributions. The contribution by Alphonse De Waelhens has several merits. First, De Waelhens provides a clear summary of Lacan’s theory of schizophrenia, as Lacan derived it from his commentary of Freud’s study of the Memoirs of Schreber. Second, De […]
Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century’s most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. The abundant debates with and references to […]
‘Political anthropology’ as the major contemporary importance in Deleuze’s workThis work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D.H. Lawrence on Deleuze, Rockwell Clancy shows how these themes ultimately bear on two competing […]