Subjectivity, desire and theory: Reading Lacan

Marx's value theory and subjectivity

Reading the first period (1627-1631) self-portraits by Rembrandt based on the concept of Das Ding in Lacan Theory

 Rembrandt, in his early self-portraits, clearly forbids the audience from seeing. The distinguishing feature of these works not in the clearly displayed sections, but in the glorious representation of the lost information. In other words, Rembrandt uses visual principles and qualities in order not to represent himself accurately. This prompted the researcher to read psychoanalytically the self...

The Tragic Human and Desire in “the Ethics of Psychoanalysis” Seminar V11 of Lacan Sublimation in the Psychoanalysis of Lacan and Freud by Colin Leslie Dean

The Skull-Bone and the Bloody Head: Lacan’s Lamella and Kojèvo-Hegelian Desire

Slavoj Žižek has made it his essential project to renew an understanding of G.W.F. Hegel’s subjectivity by means of the psychoanalytic theory and practice of Jacques Lacan. One crucial element in such an endeavor is Lacan’s notion of the lamella, a particular understanding of excessive desire as indestructible and exterior to the self. I would like to investigate Žižek’s characterization of the...

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...