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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that psychoanalysis is preparatory work for the revolution. At the end of the genealogy, the article turns to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s infamous and emblematic encounter with provocateurs from the radical student movement. Neither as domineering nor paternalistic as he seemed, Lacan’s diagnosis...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
... orientation of psychoanalysis. In his Seminar on Ethics , Jacques Lacan proposed an experimental ethical orientation toward the Last Judgment, conceiving ethics as “the relationship between action and the desire that inhabits it” (313). 1 Such an ethical encounter could only be thought through in relation...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
... difference operates in the (im)pos­ sible representation of sovereignty.8 To do so, I draw on Lacan's famously problematic distinction between the penis, as physical organ and source of pleasure, and the phallus, as the transcendental signifier ofthe universal or symbolic. In Lacan's account, the phallus...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that emerged out of an engagement with the work of Jacques Lacan beginning in the 1970s. In other works, the engagement between psychoanalysis “and the rest of the world,” to borrow Derrida’s formulation, has been the impetus for new and vital critical histories ( El Shakry and Pursley ; Khanna ). For all...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 193–202.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., the interviewee is Lacan: Freud didn't say that repression comes from suppression: that (to paint a picture) castration is due to what Daddy says to his brat when he catches him playing with his wee-wee: 'We'll cut it off, no kidding, ifyou do this again'. - Naturally enough, however, this occu"ed to him...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 October 2019
... by Hegel and Lacan, some of these feminists have interrogated the distinctions made by modern politics between kinship and politics, private and public, women's body and the political body. They point out that the latter terms are founded on the exclusion and subjection of the former. Antigone is a figure...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 April 2022
... predispositions, “unformulated experience” ( Stern ), and even “unexperienced experience” ( Blanchot 67 ). We make the world, and one another, up as we go—not as fiction but as what Jacques Lacan calls the “symbolic order,” the term by which he refers to the social world generally and, more specifically...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 244–258.
Published: 01 October 2011
... praecox or schizophrenia as hieroglyph is an enduring oneFreud] deciphers [Memoirs] in the way hieroglyphics are de­ ciphered;' Lacan observed.R.D.Laing, too, felt that"the difficulties facing us here [in the analysis of schizophrenia] are somewhat analogous to the difficulties facing the expositor...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2011
... determinism persists across interpretations byFrank Sulloway, Adolf Griinbaum, Patricia Kircher, Jean Laplanche, even Jacques Lacan. I propose to do so by readingFreud's so­ called"Project for a Scientific Psychology" not in the way generally under­ stood-as a major and failed effort to ground psychology...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., and the language of the Other that seems to arrive from the outside but comes out of our inside, as our writing. This is what Lacan calls “extimity” (Miller). We might shift our focus, borrowing a gesture from Foucault, from the prohibitions against theoretically grounded history and historically grounded theory...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., contribute to the establishment ofthefirst psychoanalytic organizations in Geneva and Paris. 35 Flournoy's work remained well known in French psychoanalytic circles. Lacan would refer in 1967 to the "famous case by whichTheodore has remained immortal in the analytic tradition" as wellas the "delusional...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 169–186.
Published: 01 October 2015
... Jewett can be seen to take up Sedgwick's invitation and, in the process, allow us to read her novel alongside "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexual­ ity in a Woman" (1920) , Sigmund Freud's hugely influential narrative of lesbian girlhood and queer origin. In this case study, which Jacques Lacan...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... depressive fears (the Moderns) and our manic hopes (Afro-pessimistic subjects) that we are closer to the end of a dream or fantasy of history imagined and defined, hegemonically, by colonial modernity. In 1945, three months into a psychoanalysis with Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst in training...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., a repression that is not simply banished in the way that Lacan does it, but is nonetheless both the foundation of the subject and a product of history. To this subterranean genealogy, which captures another life of repression than the one Brown, Marcuse, and Reich produced and the one Foucault is accused...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., The Archaeology of Knowledge (130) What is realized in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming. —Jacques Lacan, Ecrits (86...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
... implying that non-trans people experience an essential harmoniousness of gendered being. And we should be able to affirm, for trans experience, something like the “normal” gaps, ambivalences, and inconstancy of gendered being. In this vein, I very much appreciated Kay Gabriel’s gloss on Lacan’s sinthome...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd ed. (2006) . 16. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Ben Fowkes (1976) . 17. Elizabeth Freeman, TimeBinds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010) . 18. See Jacques Lacan, TheFourFundamental ConceptsofPsycho...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 October 2011
... ofFreedom, 142. 41. Ibid., 218. 42. "Freud named the locus of the unconscious by a term that had struck him in Fechner . . . namely, ein anderer Schauplatz, another scene;' Jacques Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (1977), 193. The relevant passage in The Interpretation ofDreams reads...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that subtends Freud's work. Moreover, I appreciate the deep anger and sense of betrayalthatarebothincorporated inhertextand evidenced by the aftermath of its publication, when it so incensed Lacan that he expelled her from his Ecole. Indeed, this affective force constitutes one of Irigaray's most impor­ tant...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... as the work of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, who was closely following cybernetic developments in the mid-1950s. On the critical import of less reductive versions of neuromation, see Liu . 10 In 1963, the Community Mental Health Centers Act was passed, which led to the defunding of state...
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