Click Here to Read: What Fanon still teaches us about mental illness in post-colonial societies by Garth Stevens on the Conversation website on March 19, 2021.
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The Act, Specific to Speech with Jean-Michel Vappereau online with Après-Coup
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WORKSHOP The Act, Specific to Speech Jean-Michel Vappereau Saturday, March 27, 2021 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
To address the question of “the act of speech” in psychoanalysis, we must return to the terms “act” and “speech” starting from Freud’s discovery and Lacan’s critical commentary on it. Suggested reading: “L’Étourdit” (1973), Autres écrits.
Jean-Michel Vappereau practices psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, where he gives a public seminar on psychoanalysis and topology at the association Topologie en Extension; he is a professor in the Psychoanalysis Master’s program of the Universidad Kennedy in Argentina, and a Continue reading The Act, Specific to Speech with Jean-Michel Vappereau online with Après-Coup
A PRIVATE JET OF RICH TRUMPERS WANTED TO “STOP THE STEAL”
Click Here to Read: A PRIVATE JET OF RICH TRUMPERS WANTED TO “STOP THE STEAL”—BUT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO READ THIS” These powerful Memphis figures reveal the rift in a segregated society BY ABIGAIL TRACY on the Vanity Fair Hive website on March 18, 2021.
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Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech with Paula Hochman online with Après-Coup
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FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech Paula Hochman Friday, March 26, 2021 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
What consequences does entering into speech have for speaking beings? Two major ones: first, sexuation of the speaking body, and second, the loss of being known as “alienation.” We will explore these implications and their clinical impact.
Suggested readings: Freud: “Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work” (1916). Lacan: Seminars, VII, 1959-60, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, May 25, 1960; XI, 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, May 27; XXIII, 1975-76, Le sinthome, 16 décembre 1975. Continue reading Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech with Paula Hochman online with Après-Coup
Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK
Click Here to Read: Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK: Author Sybil Oldfield reveals the Gestapo’s infamous ‘Black Book’ and the plan to Nazify Britain by rounding up the Jews – and non-Jews – who stood in the Third Reich’s way By Robert Philpot on the Times of Israel website on March 12, 2021.
