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Category Archives: Psychoanalysis

On Transience: A Farewell to Stillpoint

Word Count: 1,629

by Carlos Padrón

A psychoanalytic salve for the pain of transience.

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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.

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With THE BEST BUSINESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS
artwork by RODRIGO NAVA RAMÍREZ

“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.

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With FAINTING SPELLS
a video by SKY HOPINKA

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.

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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.

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With ALL OF THAT SKIN INTO MY SCREEN INTO MY HAND
artwork by JEANNE TULLEN

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.

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With SHEER-NAKED-AGGRESSION
a video by SOPHIE HOYLE

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.

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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.

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With DIAS DE GLÓRIA QUANDO ENCONTRO SEU OLHAR
photographs by IRIS DE OLIVEIRA

THE DESICCATION OF CORAL

Word Count: 3,290

by Jamieson Webster

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

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.

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With WEAVE DRAFT ABERRATIONS
videos by JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ

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.

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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.

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With POOL
artworks by SOLVEIG SETTEMSDAL