In a public lecture delivered in New York in March of 1999, Jacques-Alain Miller remarks that the English-language reception of Lacanian theory exhibits an increasing tendency to leave many of Lacan's key conceptual terms untranslated (for instance, savoir, méconnaissance, point de capiton, and so on). [...] go to article

In his seminal essay, "On Narcissism," Freud defines the narcissistic personality as one obsessed with "a) What he is himself (actually himself). b) What he once was. c) What he would like to be. d) Someone who was once a part of himself" [...] go to article

In the last chapter of the Traumdeuting, Freud describes a dream in which a father encounters in his sleep the ghost of his dead son: "the child was standing by his bed, clasping his arms and crying reproachfully: ‘Father, don’t you see that I’m burning?’" [...] go to article

This essay will eventually concentrate on Krzysztof Kieslowski's White, one of the films, in addition to Blue and Red, in his famous The Three Colors Trilogy [...] go to article

The Lacanian point of view on transference is very important for it makes it possible to broaden its sense as besides the therapeutic, there are at least three major ways of realizing of the transference: religion, literature, and teaching. [...] go to article

[...] By focusing on the way Lacanian psychoanalysis might read itself I hope to demonstrate and explore key elements of the way Lacanian analysis reads literature. At the same time, it is my intention to place emphasis on this mirror as structure, to better register the reflexive implications of Lacan’s texts. [...] go to article

G.W.F. Hegels Dialektik der „Selbständigkeit und Unselbständigkeit des Selbstbewußtseins; Herrschaft und Knechtschaft" ist über ihre Rezeption durch Alexandre Kojève in wesentliche Konzeptionen der psychoanalytischen Theorie von Jacques Lacan eingegangen. [...] go to article

[...] if the passion of the Real ends up with the pure semblance of the political theater, then, in an exact inversion, the "postmodern" passion of the semblance of the Last Men ends up in a kind of Real. Recall the phenomenon of "cutters" (mostly women who experience an irresistible urge to cut themselves with razors or otherwise hurt themselves), strictly correlative to the virtualization of our environs: it stands for a desperate strategy to return to the real of the body. [...] go to article