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Translations of the German used by Jacques Lacan in Seminar VII

Jo Rostron — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:54:59 +0000

The version used is ‘Seminar VII: The Ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960’ : translated by Dennis Porter : Routledge, UK, 1992 : First session: 18th November 1959 (Dates are given at (…)

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Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?

Jo Rostron — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:17:52 +0000

[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 (…)

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Fragments: The Thing (Das Ding) & …

Jo Rostron — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:27:07 +0000

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 (…)

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Body, Meaning and Knowledge – Part II

Jo Rostron — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:03:10 +0000

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, (…)

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Body, Meaning and Knowledge – Part I

Jo Rostron — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:45:14 +0000

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 (…)

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Hoodies

Jo Rostron — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:19:34 +0000

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. (…)

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Missing Something

Jo Rostron — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:33:40 +0000

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 (…)

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