Posts for the “1. Applied LacanianWorks” category
But these religious forms of technology exist alongside a willingness to recognise the limitations of human power and control, and the need to be receptive to something beyond ourselves.
by Julia Evans on November 15, 2010
from ‘ What philosophy tells us about the happiness index : Thinkers from Bentham to Heidegger saw measuring happiness as more than just a box-ticking exercise’ by Clare Carlisle The Guardian, (…)
That suggests that regulation may be part of the problem rather than part of the answer.
by Julia Evans on November 9, 2010
Quote from: Editorial, The Guardian, Tuesday November 9th 2010: The NHS Confederation has counted 698 auditing standards and 69 different auditing bodies. That suggests that regulation may be part of (…)
Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
by Julia Evans on October 9, 2010
9th October, 2010 [Edited & web-links added January 2012] Please note: Having contributed to many Government CON-sultations, my first in January 2007, I am aware that my comments do (…)
“Mental illness isn’t abnormal,” she says. “It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn’t this separate world – it’s just a step beyond the normal world.”
by Julia Evans on October 6, 2010
Seaneen Molloy hopes the event (Warning: May Contain Nuts, a cabaret) will close the gap between those who have experienced mental illness and those who haven’t. “Mental illness isn’t abnormal,” she says. (…)
The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment : 9th July 2010: Éric Laurent
by Julia Evans on July 9, 2010
This text was given in July 2010 and leads to the VIII Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis: (WAP Congress): “The Symbolic Order in the 21st Century: 23rd – (…)
… it cements co-responsibility as a principle.
by Julia Evans on May 12, 2010
From: The Financial Times, May 12th 2010 ‘Editorial:Cameron changes the Landscape’ Putting together a common programme is one thing. Actually enacting it in government is quite another. … The decision (…)
Private Language, Private Jouissance : 2nd May 2010 (Paris) : Éric Laurent
by Julia Evans on May 2, 2010
Paper was delivered at PULSE (Paris-US English Language Seminar) held in Paris on 2nd May 2010. Éric Laurent is an Analyst Member of the École de la Cause Freudienne and (…)
Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
by Julia Evans on April 14, 2010
Quote from Jean-Claud Maleval (see below): Human activities have always been spontaneously evaluated, both by those who do the activities and those who use them. What is new in our (…)
Why is the Ideology of Evaluation Pernicious?
by Jean-Claude Maleval on April 14, 2010
Presented on 14th April, 2010 to the VIIth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP): ‘Semblants and Sinthome’. Published in Psychoanalytic Notebooks, journal of the London Society of the (…)
Book Review : Quote ‘The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong’ :Irving Kirsch
by Richard House on February 28, 2010
A review of Irving Kirsch, The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, The Bodley Head, London, 2009, xii + 226 pp, ISBN 978-1-847-92083-6, price £11.99 Irving Kirsch: ‘The belief (…)
