In hyper-modern society, food has become a source of endemic discontent. Many food products are seen as ‘tainted’; literally, figuratively or both. A psychoanalytic approach, I will argue, may help us to come to terms with our alimentary predicaments. What I envision is a ‘depth ethics’ (the moral equivalent of a ‘depth psychology’) focusing on some of the latent tensions, conflicts and ambigui...

O presente artigo busca apresentar uma análise subjetiva sobre a constituição da autoimagem e autoestima em adolescentes expostos participantes ativos das redes sociais, sob ótica psicanalítica. Realizou-se revisão bibliográfica teórica respeito dos conceitos de falso self Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) Outro para Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), sendo estes direcionados ao período adolescência no cont...

Bu yazıda Sigmund Freud’un kuramında kilit bir öneme sahip olan ve daha sonraları Jacques Lacan tarafından derinlemesine incelenen fantazi kavramı irdelenmektedir. Freud’da fantezi kavramının ortaya çıkışı rüyalar, gündüz düşleri, baştan çıkarma kuramı, sahte anı gibi olgularla ilişkiliyken, Lacan’da çok kaygı, korku, arzu fobi ile ilişkilendirilmiştir. kavramların yanı sıra fantazi, Lacan’ın Ö...

Starting from the fact that International Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing Activities of States in Exploration and Use Space, Including Moon Other Celestial Bodies/UNOOSA, 1967) has been modeled international laws seas, this essay investigates epistemic consequences conceiving outer space archipelagically, or, more specifically following Craig Santos Perez, terripelagically. B...

ow nl oa de d B y: [U ni ve rs ity o f S us se x] A t: 15 :5 1 24 D ec em be r 2 00 7 Phillips, J. (1988). Latency and the unconscious in Merleau-Ponty. In Phenomenology and psychoanalysis: The sixth annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (pp. 331–364). Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. Phillips, J. (1996). Lacan and Merleau-Ponty: The confrontation of psychoanaly...

This paper discusses Laclau and Mouffe’s post-structural theory of discourse its methodological tools that could be used for an analysis social cultural phenomena. Initially, we outline the variety discursive approaches within classification suggested by Jacob Torfing (2005) in order to explain distinctions similarities between linguistic understanding reality. Then, examine premises theory, wh...

Rather than thinking of writing trauma as “coming to terms with”, some type teleological endeavor transcend or reconcile with traumatic experience, I propose that involves processes “being-with” the body, despite overwhelming, alarming desire distance self from trauma. That is, there is a risk in and being-with body: subject writes, they jeopardize collapse subjectivity by approaching abject. T...