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Brenner, L. (2021). The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage. Theory & Psychology. 2021;31(6):950-972. doi: 10.1177/09593543211034569 The mirror stage is one of Jacques Lacan’s most well-received metapsychological models in the English-speaking world. In its many renditio…

Duane Rousselle Real Love: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Religion, SocietyThink Media Series | Paperback – December 2021 | 154 pages| ISBN 1777630207 | ISBN-978-1777630201 https://www.atropospress.com/real-love   This is the third book in a series of psychoanalytic “interventions” into culture and soci…

  How do the mutually-implicated practices of authorship, publication, reading, and critique contribute to the elucidation of our clinical practices? What is the place of psychoanalytic writing in the larger social field(s) that we engage in? As always, psychoanalysis finds itself in a twin moment…

Freud’s Seduction: The California Dream and a Future Psychoanalysis, by Fernando Castrillon at Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, Germany May 24, 2022 at 8pm. https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/fernando-castrillon/ This talk opens up the question of how and which Freud came to Califo…

On April 15, 2022 (9:30-11am PDT), EJP hosted a three-way conversation on the new film, ADIEU LACAN, featuring Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer, Betty Milan, award-winning director Richard C. Ledes, and EJP Editor-in-Chief, Fernando Castrillón. Based on her play “Goodbye, Doctor” and her novel “…

  War has now become our reality. It is no longer a ‘knowledge’ transmitted to us from history books and assessed as if from a calm distance. We cannot escape its horrors. Millions of people lost their homes, thousands were killed – and violence continues. A painful knowledge is actively construc…

The theme of ‘gender‘ – the rejection of male-female binarism and heteronormativity – striking at the foundations of the static-determinist view of the biologistic type, imposes rethinking on various disciplines: from the clinic, which is being asked to completely revise its approach to …

Meeting 2. Friday 14th April 2023, at 18.00 CET “NEITHER SEX NOR GENDER: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH” Speaker: Patricia Gherovici Discussants: Emma Lieber – Arturo Casoni Introduction: Giulio Corrivetti anx Anna Maria Giannini Moderator: Raffaele Bracalenti Simultaneous translation service ITALIAN…

The word “saturation” has appeared repeatedly in the psychoanalytic work of Duane Rousselle and Mark Gerard Murphy. We shall explore further implications of this concept for religious and sociological thought. How do the late teachings of Jacques Lacan help us to navigate contemporary capitalism,…