Issue 5: LaConference

Sixty years after Lacan: The Symbolic Order in the 20^th Century

• Opening remarks - Issue 5

  Hilda Fernandez   Good morning everyone My name is Hilda Fernandez, I am a founding member of... read more

• “The Function and the Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis": A commentary on Lacan’s ‘Discours de Rome’

  As you can see I have already added the object (a) at the bottom. In the first lessons of... read more

• Beyond Full and Empty Speech

  The fact that there is no meaning of meaning, as Mauricio Tarrab puts forth, implies that the... read more

• Determinate Self-Signification

  Michael Hejazi Determinate Signification, Formations In Reality Perception … there is a clear... read more

• Plus-de-Jouir, Plus A: The work of Love

  Christine Evans In one sequence from the Marx Brothers film, A Night at the Opera (1935),... read more

• The Indictment to (not) Enjoy

  Wayne Robinson   Rather, it is the freedom to desire that is a new factor, not because it has... read more

• Curating the Chrystal of the Tongue

  Deleuze’s crystal image, which possesses multiple facets within its single plane, has only... read more

• After Transgression: Ethics Under a Different Master

  There is some disagreement on what exactly the four-ring Borromean knot represents for Lacan. Some... read more

• Ideology, Clinical Structures and the Ethical Challenge to the Analyst

  Hilda Fernandez   “A certificate tells me that I was born. I repudiate this certificate: I am... read more

• Final Remarks: The Trashitas of Saint Chris

  Paul Kingsbury In Ridley Scott’s tech-noir, Blade Runner (1982), Roy Batty (played by... read more