Announcements Psychoanalysis Theological Ethics

Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)

When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below. You must register in advance of the seminar, whereupon you will be automatically sent the actual Zoom participation link. Registration Link: https://udenver.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pfuyhpjgpHdD9Q6WnILxJi64XICWHkaaN General Contact: editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com Moderator: Carl Raschke, Senior Editor, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, […]

Hermeneutics Psychoanalysis

Thinking With One’s Feet – Lacanian Theories Of Textual Engagement, Part 3 (William J. Urban)

The following is the third part in a three-part installment. The first part can be found here and the second here. The Real Lacan: Sublime Object of Texts We have hinted that many of the paradoxes and contradictions involved in the topological constitution of the subject which eventually lead Lacan to shift his emphasis onto […]

Hermeneutics Psychoanalysis

Thinking With One’s Feet – Lacanian Theories Of Textual Engagement, Part 2 (William J. Urban)

The following is the second part in a three-part installment. The first part can be found here. The Symbolic Lacan: Signifiance of Texts There are certain key écrits [1] from the 1950s that in effect fully announce Lacan’s entry into his so-called “structuralist phase.” Academically speaking, this Lacan is the most well-known of our three Lacans […]

Metaphysics Psychoanalysis

Badiou, The Event, and Psychiatry, Part 1 (Vincenzo Di Nicola)

The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article was originally published online in the blog of the American Philosophical Association, November 2017. I: Trauma and Event  Philosophy is either reckless or it is nothing. —Alain Badiou, Second Manifesto for Philosophy [1] Instead of being reckless, as Badiou demands of philosophy, by which […]