Browsing: Psychoanalysis

An illustrative portrait accompanying an analysis of hysteria as a Lacanian discourse and as the subject’s unstable position within the void of desire.

A conceptual image examining whether women’s visibility on social media constitutes self-representation or a digitalised regime of objectification and surveillance.

Perseus’s polished shield represents an indirect and mediated form of looking that places distance between the subject and Medusa’s deadly gaze.

A conceptual image bringing Freud and Lacan together through the unconscious, transference, language, law, desire, and the clinical structure of the subject.

A conceptual representation of the subject as a pre-ontological position constituted between the Other, bodily loss, the signifier, the Real, and the symptom.

A conceptual representation of the divided subject, desire, lack, fantasy, jouissance, and the Borromean knot in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

A conceptual image representing Evans’s account of jouissance as a plural Lacanian field extending beyond pleasure into pain, prohibition, embodiment, and repetition.

A conceptual representation of jouissance as the dark excess linking desire, prohibition, bodily experience, fantasy, and the symptom.

A psychoanalytic essay on Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt, examining inner rebellion, memory, desire, psychoanalysis, and the relation between intimate and political transformation.

A psychoanalytic essay on Kristeva’s Tales of Love, examining desire, narcissism, idealization, love-hate ambivalence, aesthetic language, and the fragile subject.