Vol 32 (3) 2014
Nothing for nothing: Lacan and language in the 1950’s – Clare-Aloyse Murphy
Playing with Autism and Outsider Art – Leni Van Goidsenhoven
Clinical Considerations about Addiction: In Search of the Addicted Subject – Bart Rabaey
Family Secret Revisited – Filip Geerardyn & Jaap van Hoewijk
Family Secret Revisited
When Jaap van Hoewijk discovered in 1997 that his father had not died in a motor accident, as he and his sisters had been told 23 years before, but rather had committed suicide, he decided to make a documentary about this discovery. The interview revisits the...
Clinical Considerations about Addiction: In Search of the Addicted Subject
In this contribution the author examines the specificity of a psychoanalytic orientation in clinical work with addicts. A psychoanalytic approach focuses on the subject and his discontent, rather than on the object, the consumed substance, and does not limit itself to...
Playing with Autism and Outsider Art
Throughout the twentieth century, autism has been variously interpreted and as a result has become a flexible signifier. Over the last decade, both the academic world and popular culture have paid particular attention to the self-expression of people living on the...
Nothing for nothing: Lacan and language in the 1950’s
This paper explores how the influence of cybernetics within structuralism contributed to Lacan's theory of the signifier as (functioning within a) structure. By examining his Freudian exploration within the broader scheme of American and French thought, the author...