An essay that revels in the sublimity and beauty of silence.
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With WEB CHOREOGRAPHIES
artworks by JOANA CHICAU
Category Archives: Psychoanalysis
Are we still afraid of the unconscious?
Word Count: 3,086
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An essay evoking the uses and potentials of psychoanalysis.
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With DIAS DE GLÓRIA QUANDO ENCONTRO SEU OLHAR
photographs by IRIS DE OLIVEIRA
A tour through a dream, a rumination on the loss inherent to desire.
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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: 3,974
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Building community, and the therapeutic relationship, around an exaltation of the radically Other.
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With (BE)LONGING
an artwork by CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
WE ALL FALL DOWN
Word Count: 1,575
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Facing the dizziness of freedom through self-awareness in the disorientation of the Covid-19 moment.
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With WEAVE DRAFT ABERRATIONS
videos by JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ
A foundational work presenting the relevance of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory within a praxis global in scale.
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With NEXT TO YOU (IN-MALIBU.MX)
a video by RODRIGO NAVA RAMIREZ
“To Be or Not To Be”: Blackness and Signification
Word Count: 2,675
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A radical explosion of the reality of race and racism through a transformative use of language.
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With BEYOND THE HORIZON & ACID RAIN
artworks by DAVID ALABO
Paradise Lost—On Researching the Female Orgasm in Psychoanalytic Theory
Word Count: 3,815
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How Psychology and Psychoanalysis have, since their inception, contributed to the repression of female sexuality.
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With COURS INTÉRIEURES
an artwork by DEBORA CHEYENNE CRUCHON
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.
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With POOL
artworks by SOLVEIG SETTEMSDAL
A Lacanian exploration of Artificial Intelligence, and the body.
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With THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF BRASILIA
a video by GUERREIRO DO DIVINO AMOR
Am I Becoming a Worse Therapist?
Word Count: 1,986
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A therapist reflects on the apparent contradictions of developing as a therapist.
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With VOGEL’S NET
an artwork by PAIGE SILVERMAN
What good is Existential Psychoanalysis today?
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With UNION (PART II: AFFECTIVE LABOUR)
an artwork by HANCOCK & KELLY
Desire and Pleasure
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On why we’d be fools to sever pleasure from desire.
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With INTERVENTION, HAPPY TRAIL & 911 CALL
artwork by ERIN M. RILEY
A warning to the left on the dehumanizing potentials of shame.
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With RAY OF HOPE
a video by DUNCAN McKELLAR
Psychologically, fantasy can be a tool, a crutch, or a means of transformation.
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With #10 – INVITATION TO LOVE: FRAGMENTED VIDEO DIARY
a video by JORGOS LOUKAKOS