The only site to bring you controversial, up-to-the-minute, critical analysis of psychoanalysis and postmodern cultural concerns...  Contributions welcome.

These pages are for commentary on psychoanalytic ideas as applied to theory, to the clinic and contemporary culture. The assumption is that psychoanalytic discourse interacts with other discourses in unique, interesting and provocative ways, to the benefit of each. Pages will be added to and updated frequently, especially to the diary.

This site arises out of a perceived belief that psychoanalysis should reach a much wider audience When the site is fully operational, there will be long articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, shorter pieces and fragments, notes or free associations, as well as notes for students, reviews of books and articles. There is no attempt to be inclusive or balanced.

 

Read about suicide, the history of analysis in Ireland, Hanaghan, who was the first analyst in Ireland, the loss of authority, the seductions of therapy, a strange form of withdrawal in Japan, a forthcoming book and much more....

 

Just added, notes on Winnicott and Camus. A recent paper on George Bataille. A paper on crime. A reading of a controversial book on Queer Theory. A paper on Žižek (published in IJZS) and a review in CultureWars  of his important analysis of violence here... 

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