This article seeks to reopen a major question raised by the Lacanian nosology of the psychoses, by looking closely at Lacan's formulations of what he never ceased referring to as "paranoia". While almost all classification systems of modern psychiatry, such as the ICD-10 and the DSM-5, have abandoned the specific category of paranoia, Lacan always viewed paranoia as a major category of "functio...

In this paper, I call for a re-consideration of anarchism and its alternative ways of conceptualising spaces for radical politics. Here I apply a Lacanian analysis of the social imaginary to explore the utopian fantasies and desires that underpin social spaces, discourses and practices – including planning, and revolutionary politics. I will go on to develop – via Castoriadis and others – a dis...

Theoretical, psychoanalytical constructs referring to the unconscious, the superego, and id, enjoy an autonomy within the I. As such, this study contemplates the discussion of these foreign entities that inhabit the interior of the I, producing an effect of foreignness. In the first section, I will develop a reflection on the state of foreignness of the unconscious. I will begin with an analogy...

Abweichungen von wettbewerblichem Verhalten auf den Agrarund Kraftstoffmärkten sind immer wieder Gegenstand von wissenschaftlichen und legislativen Untersuchungen. Zur Stärkung des Wettbewerbs auf dem deutschen Kraftstoffmarkt wurde 2013 die Markttransparenzstelle (MTS) geschaffen. Die MTS ermöglicht u.a. dem Bundeskartellamt (BKartA) die verbesserte Ermittlung unzulässiger Verdrängungsstrategi...

© 2002 by The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: This paper discusses the different explanatory approaches taken by feminists and (Kleinian) psychoanalysts to women’s psychological illness. In particular, anorexia nervosa (a condition that has attracted much feminist attention) is used as an example. Examination of some Kleinian accounts of work with anorexic patients reveals the great di...

Building automation faces a development that leads to more and more sensory information available for processing. Existing approaches are challenged by this abundant amount of data, therefore the authors see a need to introduce new concepts for handling the challenges of the upcoming future. Looking at bionic approaches taken from the field of neurobiology, but also psychoanalysis, a system is ...

Family Discussion Bureau, which hypothesizes that basic psychoanalytical knowledge may be applied in a social work setting, and the team approach used in Child Guidance may be adapted for use an agency dealing with marital difficulties. The first two chapters deal with the history and development of the Bureau, its organisation, and the training of the social workers, with a careful discussion ...

The Song of Songs is regarding Eros, whereas the Book Job seems to be about Thanatos. Despite dominance theme death in this biblical book, no word for a corpse or even dead body occurs. Absence is, however, hermeneutically so important that it probably constitutes its essence only gaps leaving questions can interpreted. theory French psychoanalyst, Mária Török, phantom psychic crypt as unknown ...