Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept? with  Darian Leader at Après-Coup
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Jackson Pollock, Shimmering Substance, 1946
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept?  Darian Leader   Saturday, January 16, 2021
11:00 AM – 1:30 PM (EST)

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Advanced Lacanians are supposedly those who have a ‘clinic of the real’ or of ‘jouissance,’ but beyond the sophisticated terms we often find feeble and unhelpful conceptualizations. The label ‘jouissance’ is now used almost entirely descriptively, thus blocking further exploration of a variety of clinical issues and shutting down rather than opening up clinical and conceptual questions about the symptom, the body, repetition, and sexuality. Continue reading Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept? with  Darian Leader at Après-Coup

Room: To Have and To Hold: A Year in Rear View
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ROOM: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
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The most distant galaxy is upending our model of the universe’s history
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Click Here to Read: The most distant galaxy is upending our model of the universe’s history: A new study confirms GN-z11 is the oldest and most distant galaxy humans have ever sighted By Nicole Karlis on the Salon website on December 27, 2020.

Distant galaxy GN-z11 in GOODS-N image by HST.jpg Image: NASA ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.