On Transience: A Farewell to Stillpoint Word Count: 1,629 by Carlos Padrón A psychoanalytic salve for the pain of transience. – With TO SEE THE RINGS WITHOUT MAKING A CUT artwork by TABITHA NIKOLAI
POV: you are writing a piece of speculative fiction about what you’d say in ten years about the loss you are experiencing now. Word Count: 1,753 by Ariadna García Llorente Theoretical fiction on the analytics of mourning. – With THE BEST BUSINESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS artwork by RODRIGO NAVA RAMÍREZ
https://vimeo.com/735782338 “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” – A Manifesto Word Count: 2,187 by Kara Kohn-Gardner & Carlos Padrón An experimental, co-authored declaration of the potential of dreams and the unconscious hold for collective transformation. – With FAINTING SPELLS a video by SKY HOPINKA
https://vimeo.com/690501925 IN-BETWEEN THE LAW AND TRANSGRESSION: DESIRE, ETHICS, AND SYMBOLIC DESTINY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS Word Count: 3,162 by Richard B. Keys A tour through experiments in psychoanalytic writing and a consideration of desire and ethics within and outside the analytic situation. – With INSIDE OUT a film by SARAH KHAN
Through the Looking Glass and Other Nonsense Word Count: 2,492 by Adam Goren On the difficulties of intimacy in the analytic situation. – With ALL OF THAT SKIN INTO MY SCREEN INTO MY HAND artwork by JEANNE TULLEN
https://vimeo.com/656188035 THE TENDERNESS OF THE CUT Word Count: 1,954 by Vanessa Sinclair A psychoanalytic take on the omnipresence of dominance, submission, and inaccessibility in our most intimate relationships. – With SHEER-NAKED-AGGRESSION a video by SOPHIE HOYLE
https://vimeo.com/548015168 IF YOU LISTEN, THERE ARE GLIMPSES Word Count: 1,025 by Dr Stephen Setterberg An essay that revels in the sublimity and beauty of silence. – With WEB CHOREOGRAPHIES artworks by JOANA CHICAU
Are we still afraid of the unconscious? Word Count: 3,149 by Mathilde Ramadier An essay evoking the uses and potentials of psychoanalysis. – With DIAS DE GLÓRIA QUANDO ENCONTRO SEU OLHAR photographs by IRIS DE OLIVEIRA
https://vimeo.com/562723716 THE DESICCATION OF CORAL Word Count: 3,290 by Jamieson Webster A tour through a dream, a rumination on the loss inherent to desire. – With an excerpt from BEYOND THE NATION STATE I WANT TO DREAM a video by DORINE VAN MEEL
TOTEMIZING THE TABOO, OR SEIZING THE FORTRESS OF WHITENESS Word Count: 4,037 by Carlos Padrón Building community, and the therapeutic relationship, around an exaltation of the radically Other. – With (BE)LONGING an artwork by CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
WE ALL FALL DOWN Word Count: 1,648 by Gohar Homayounpour Facing the dizziness of freedom through self-awareness in the disorientation of the Covid-19 moment. – With WEAVE DRAFT ABERRATIONS videos by JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ
THE IMPORTANCE OF FREUDO-LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS TO LIBERATION PRAXIS Word Count: 2,857 by Robert K. Beshara A foundational work presenting the relevance of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory within a praxis global in scale. – With NEXT TO YOU (IN-MALIBU.MX) a video by RODRIGO NAVA RAMÍREZ
“To Be or Not To Be”: Blackness and Signification Word Count: 2,742 by S. Alfonso Williams A radical explosion of the reality of race and racism through a transformative use of language. – With BEYOND THE HORIZON & ACID RAIN artworks by DAVID ALABO
Paradise Lost—On Researching the Female Orgasm in Psychoanalytic Theory Word Count: 3,877 by Amelie Wittenberg How Psychology and Psychoanalysis have, since their inception, contributed to the repression of female sexuality. – With COURS INTÉRIEURES an artwork by DEBORA CHEYENNE CRUCHON
ELEMENTAL CATASTROPHE: ECOPSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE VIRAL UNCANNY OF COVID-19 Word Count: 5,432 by Joseph Dodds Coronavirus embodies the uncanny ecology that threatens our destruction—but also offers a pause in the headlong rush of our ecocidal civilization, opening possibilities of renewal. – With POOL artworks by SOLVEIG SETTEMSDAL
AI AND THE MISSING BODY Word Count: 4,505 by Isabel Millar A Lacanian exploration of Artificial Intelligence, and the body. – With THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF BRASILIA a video by GUERREIRO DO DIVINO AMOR
Am I Becoming a Worse Therapist? Word Count: 2,048 by Valery Hazanov A therapist reflects on the apparent contradictions of developing as a therapist. – With VOGEL’S NET an artwork by PAIGE SILVERMAN
CAN IGNORING THE UNCONSCIOUS MAKE US FREE? SARTRE, EXISTENTIALISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS WITHOUT UNCONSCIOUS Word Count: 2,212 by Mathilde Ramadier What good is Existential Psychoanalysis today? – With UNION (PART II: AFFECTIVE LABOUR) an artwork by HANCOCK & KELLY
Desire and Pleasure Word Count: 2,184 by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi On why we’d be fools to sever pleasure from desire. – With INTERVENTION, HAPPY TRAIL & 911 CALL artwork by ERIN M. RILEY
BIOPOLITICAL WARS IN THE ERA OF THE ALT-RIGHT Word Count: 3,208 by Dr A. Kiarina Kordela A warning to the left on the dehumanizing potentials of shame. – With RAY OF HOPE a video by DUNCAN McKELLAR
WADING ON THE SHORES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: EXPLORING THE ROLES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION IN THERAPY Word Count: 3,182 by Elizabeth Carter Psychologically, fantasy can be a tool, a crutch, or a means of transformation. – With #10 – INVITATION TO LOVE: FRAGMENTED VIDEO DIARY a video by JORGOS LOUKAKOS
