Ibsen, as a playwright, Thomas F. Van Lann comments, has been accused of deceiving his audience regarding the matters play- both its central business and manner; particularly in style mode. While reviewing Ibsen through Lacanian lens, critics such Oliver W. Gerland III, argue that reading is task revising interpretative paradigms Ibsen’s protagonist revises strategies for enacting “self”. The W...

This article explores two clinical phenomena-pornography and conspiracy thinking-that are highly relevant today and can be observed specifically among adolescent boys in the early stages of post-puberty: conspiracy thinking and the viewing of pornographic videos. It shows that the Lacanian concepts of the Real (of puberty) and the sexual non-rapport help us understand the psychopathological asp...

This article studies the links between psychoanalysis and the transition to democracy in Spain. It examines the major changes that characterized the spread of psychoanalysis in the years after Franco's death, in particular the rise of the Lacanian movement, the impact of this phenomenon on the sociocultural sphere and, in broader terms, its role in the re-emergence of psychoanalysis as a cultur...