A Ética em Lacan

Lacan with

In 1953 Donald Winnicott was appointed to a committee by the then president of the IPA Heinz Hartman, to investigate the events surrounding and the resignations of various members of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the founding of the Société Française de Psychoanalyse. Lacan up to the moment of his resignation from the Paris Society, had been its President and was one of those that the co...

Conceitos de transparência como promotores da ética e do "usuário auditor" em sistemas de informação

This paper argues the role of developers and their possible proactive actions to raise ethical aspects in development and how users can support these initiatives acting as information auditors. We based our position using the approach of next steps to be taken in the promotion of Human Values, described in the proceedings of Brazilian Grand Challenges in HCI Research. As proposals to the charac...

Latino Studies With Lacan

Population , ethics , and equity População , ética

Demography is impregnated, more or less explicitly, with ethical contents. This is apparent in the words used to support data, which change over time (e.g., the term “illegitimate child” is no longer used). Ethical principles must be analyzed because demography concerns both public policies and individual choice. There is a conflict in this area between the idea of the ethical state, dictating ...

Jacques Lacan and French psychiatry

Jacques Lacan died in September 1981 at the age of 81. The French press, the mass media and several members of the French government all paid him tribute. For several years his name had been linked with that of Sigmund Freud, and he was often referred to as the French Freud. Students of medicine and the social sciences studied his writings, or pretended to read them. Even some secondary school ...