“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 […]
These days a book on psychosis composed entirely of psychoanalytic contributions is a rarity. It can create surprise that, in what some have called “the decade of the brain“, scholars on psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology still continue to develop a project of understanding and explaining psychosis from a phenomenological and psychodynamic perspective. And yet such […]
Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual’s mental […]
A close reading of Deleuze’s major text on desireThe engagement of Deleuze with psychoanalysis has led to the development of a remarkable and highly influential theory about human desire. The most systematic account of this theory, crucial for anyone interested in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, can be found in the discussion of the […]