To do without / to make use of it

Lacan’s Seminar of 1975-1976, entitled The Sinthome, is entirely devoted to James Joyce, Irish writer of the 20th Century. In this Seminar, on numerous occasions, Lacan affirms that what brought Joyce to his desire of being...

The Name-of-the-Father as an operator that regulates jouissance is born in Lacan on the side of metaphor and then goes on to be conceived as a logical function and, finally, as a knot or symptomatic...

« William Blake es uno de los hombres más extraños de la literatura. Fue el menos contemporáneo de los hombres. » J. L. Borges The striving of humans towards God the father is eternal. He deceives. And...

We live in an era driven by the union of the market and technoscience, which has produced a radical effect on subjectivity : the loss of belief in the order offered by the Name of the...

I would like to show three ways in which Lacan emphasised the irreducible place of the father. The father who wows (épate) The first is a formula which is particularly amusing in French. It is...

This evening, I have chosen to speak to you about the father after patriarchy from the perspective of the upcoming PIPOL 11 meeting. The father after patriarchy is the father who is no longer universal....

Père-version and the decline of patriarchy Lacan refers to the decline of patriarchy – paternalism is the word he uses in « Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality » of 1958. In the last section he...