As we passed the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, we saw a number of people reflecting on new habits they took up or things they learned when they suddenly had so much time on their ...
I’ve just received galleys for one of the books I’m most excited about for fall: “Lacan at the Scene” by Henry Bond. The author takes crime-scene photographs from the nineteen-fifties (some quite ...
My first week with my new kitten Evelyn has reminded me of French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan’s discussion of the childhood game Hide-and-Seek or in Freud’s parlance “fort/da” — an ...
Jacques Lacan's encounter with Paul Claude's play Crusts foregrounds the typical traumatization of the psychoanalytic subject in the face of paternal prohibitions. Lacan's reading of Claudel shows ...
Danielle Lessnau, untitled, 2017, from the series of gelatin prints titled extimité, a word coined by Jacques Lacan addressing the space of confusion that exists between the inside and the outside.
This paper addresses the issue of subjectivity in the context of mathematics education research. It introduces the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan whose work on subjectivity combined Freud's ...