This article gives an overview of the psychiatric approach to psychotic hallucinations and discusses Lacan’s conceptual break from this paradigm. Rejecting the traditional focus on the unreality of hallucinatory perceptions, Lacan examines the effects that psychotic hallucinations have on the person who experiences them. He develops an alternative theoretical framework which indicates that psyc...

This paper examines some of the ways that Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG)s such as World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 2004) disperses and fragments subjectivity by enabling players to create their game experiences into virtual autobiographies through the recognition that these experiences are perceived simultaneously by the individual and the avatar. The theorie...

In this article, we are interested in exploring the history of game theory France, and particularly way it was received diffused 1950s. It will be shown that France most fertile soil continental Europe for a multidisciplinary welcoming to theory. Reviewing certain aspects intellectual trajectory mathematician Guilbaud, ethnologist Lévi-Strauss psychanalyst Lacan, show how each them, his own way...

Throughout the 20th century, philosophers have criticized the scientific understanding of the human body. Instead of presenting the body as a meaningful unity or Gestalt, it is regarded as a complex mechanism and described in quasi-mechanistic terms. In a phenomenological approach, a more intimate experience of the body is presented. This approach, however, is questioned by Jacques Lacan. Accor...

Resumo O artigo parte da interrogação: em que sentido o recurso à escrita de James Joyce abala a axiomática do ensino Lacan, centrada no estruturalismo linguístico? visa, então, localizar relevância na reformulação conceito inconsciente. Por meio levantamento conceitual sobre definição inconsciente, foi possível problematizar validade linguística estrutural para definir interrogando deslocament...

signifier of difference whose function—and this is crucial—is to give a per-