There have throughout the years been discussions about the term of “the other” in Lacanian theory. And whilst the young and middle-aged Lacan was very skilled at writing and delivering talk, the Lacan of later years became too arcane and was often very wrong even. It most often is that Lacanians are referring to Lacan's early texts rather than to the subsequent ones he authored, and there might in fact be a quite good reason for this.
Imagine there is a father, that is a person full of hatred and imagine that there is a lovely warm hearted mother. How can a child ever decide on which path it would like to walk on. It is an impossible task.
Chaosmos – James Joyce’s evocative neologism for the combination or collision of chaos and cosmos, later adapted by Umberto Eco and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Eco saw the term as a midpoint or synthesis between the poles of chaos (symbolising disorder) and cosmos (symbolising order).
Who would have thought that culture and agriculture might have so much in common? Felix Raffael tries to explain why...
The author Edward Thomas draws us into the midst of a fascinating, fictional crime story involving psychologists set in the heartland of America.
The author Michel Houllebecq exerts a considerable influence on French society through his novels. Although Submission is a work of fiction and, as such, must be read and interpreted with this in mind, nevertheless the French literary critic Olivier Bardolle has drawn attention to the unique, sociological quality of Houellebecq’s literary works, stressing the fact that they mirror contemporary French society in a very precise manner just like the works of fiction written by Proust and Celine