Many students of the arts and humanities probably first encounter the name of Jacques Lacan in one of the numerous studies of the French Structuralist movement, an intellectual paradigm which attained ...
Paradoxical formulas are not lacking in Lacan's texts and teachings. As far as the symptom is concerned, these paradoxes culminate in the idea that normative heterosexuality is itself a symptom, and ...
His attempts to "find completion" continue to alienate him. For Lacan, the most profound alienation comes with the inauguration into language and the "Symbolic Order." It is at this stage, according ...
Bringing attention to the ordinary and minute ways in which our perspective is gendered, Prof Stefan Horlacher delivered an insightful session on the emergingdevelopments in the field of masculinity ...