Psychology Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
Parts of the Lacanian field have been forgetful in recent times, so this might be an opportune moment for a brief excursion into psychoanalytic history. By the latter years of his life, Freud had followers in many parts of the Continue reading
Let us begin with a couple of prefatory remarks, one from the institutional side of psychoanalysis, and the other from the clinical. There is surely a history waiting to be written of the movement of Lacan’s audience from the militant Continue reading
(Will contain spoilers/spoil things) Front Fanon, in addition to being an anti-colonial revolutionary and theorist, was also a psychiatrist. He recounts a case in Algeria in which a man exhibited a range of symptoms, including increasing domestic violence, that could Continue reading
Recently, I heard the re-articulation of a thesis that I’d heard before, from someone whose work I know and respect. The university is all but dead, except for its function as a corporation, but nonetheless the discourse of the university Continue reading
The following was excerpted from a response to a case presentation with the Lacan Circle of Australia, on 11th March, 2023: In general terms, we can hear that the case discussed today has been presented (and treated) via the paradigm Continue reading
Since 2017, prominent Lacanian psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic schools have made an explicit turn towards a politically reactionary version of liberalism. In this milieu, political party involvement is viewed with suspicion, or as pathologically symptomatic, and there is a sweeping equivalence Continue reading
Apparently, in about 3-4 months, the psychoanalytic group of which I am a member will feature a debate or discussion on the topic of Jacques-Alain Miller and his followers contributions to Lacanian discourse: the ‘One-all-alone’, the real unconscious, the ‘autism’ Continue reading
The scene was the mass uprising of students and workers across France in 1968. Famously, Lacan engaged with some of the students involved in the attempt at revolution. Two IPA analysts, writing under a pseudonym, denounced the students as would-be Continue reading
The three pillars of psychoanalytic training a presentation to the Lacan Circle of Australia, February 2022 The discussion below was given to an audience in Melbourne, and elsewhere (via Zoom), and whilst it has specific reference to local developments Continue reading
If one were to critique the wild sociopolitical diagnoses of certain Lacanians, it sounds as if one is critiquing a straw man: We are leaving the age of the father. The efficacy of the entire symbolic order is in question, Continue reading