Por amor a Lacan... Pelo amor de 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...

AMOR – Towards Adaptable Model Versioning

The development of complex software systems requires appropriate abstraction mechanisms in terms of model-driven engineering techniques (MDE) and proper support for allowing developers to work in parallel in terms of version control systems (VCSs). For realizing the vision of MDE, a bundle of standards has been made available recently, whereas the versioning of models has not gained the necessa...

Latino Studies With Lacan

Amor and Psyche; a growing relationship?

Two interesting studies on the brain-heart connection were recently presented. At the 12th Annual Spring Meeting on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Copenhagen, Denmark (16/17 March, 2012), Nikki Damen, a PhD student at Tilburg University, reported that patients who are depressed after coronary artery stenting have a worse prognosis. The authors reported tha...

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 ...