interdisciplinary studies have provided researches with new perspectives. the relation between literature and psychoanalysis is rather recent in iran; but even within this short period we have come to realize the benefits of such a relation to both literature and psychoanalysis. lacan's theories lead us towards interesting and sometimes decisive results in the analysis of characters and literar...

This paper considers John Dewey’s dual reformist-preservationist agenda for education in the context of current debates about the role of experience in management learning. The paper argues for preserving experience-based approaches to management learning by revising the concept of experience to more clearly account for the relationship between personal and social (i.e. , tacit/explicit) knowle...

In the 1950s Jacques Lacan developed a set-up with a concave mirror and a plane mirror, based on which he described the nature of human identification. He also formulated ideas on how psychoanalysis, qua clinical practice, responds to identification. In this paper Lacan's schema of the two mirrors is described in detail and the theoretical line of reasoning he aimed to articulate with aid of th...

The French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) started his exploration of the human mind because during his work he discovered that there were certain cases that could not be explained somatically. In order to understand psychiatrist patients, it was not enough to understand the human body, but also the condition in general. As that other doctor, Freud, had encountered the ...

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...

despite his personal proximity to Georges Bataille, jacques lacan makes very few direct references to his work. Indeed, the only mention of Bataille’s name in the 878 pages of the Écrits is in a footnote to “on a Question prior to any possible treatment of psychosis.”1 this article declares that daniel schreber, the prototypical psychotic, was exposed to inner experience by his insight that “Go...

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...