About Jo Rostron
Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
November 3, 2012
[Note: This text was first presented on 3rd November 2012 to the New Lacanian School’s registered cartel ‘Jouissance & symbolic (dis)order’. This cartel is based on: Éric Laurent’s 2010 text: ‘The (…)
Fragments: The Thing (Das Ding) & …
February 18, 2012
Contribution to LW Group 18 February 2012 Pre-amble to Fragments: Reference: Lacan, J.1959-60 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Book VII, Translated Dennis Porter, Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Tavistock/Routledge, London 1992. Availability given (…)
Body, Meaning and Knowledge – Part II
November 12, 2011
In his session of 21st January 1975, R. S. I. [i] , Jacques Lacan says that it is only because the subject is CAUSED by an object imagining it knows, (…)
Body, Meaning and Knowledge – Part I
October 8, 2011
Snapshot 1 Encapsulation (vignette of 34yr old male in art therapy with mild shell type autism and mild learning difficulties) As the patient put down his paintbrush, I made (…)
Hoodies
August 10, 2011
Can the actions of the ‘hoodies’ be termed riots, and as such politically motivated? Or are they simply acts of looting and destructiveness? It is likely that they are both. (…)
Missing Something
April 2, 2011
Clara, aged seven, had recently been given a psychiatric diagnosis of high functioning autism associated with dyspraxia. She could read at a level well beyond her years, but was unable (…)