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The Symptom

The online journal of lacan.com, edited by Josefina Ayerza — issues 1–18.

Issue 18

  1. Alex Kayser Interviews Gala Alex Kayser
  2. Alex Kayser Josefina Ayerza
  3. Being is Desire Jacques-Alain Miller
  4. Artice, The Other Side of Fiction Marie-Hélène Brousse
  5. The Réveil (Awakening) from the Réve (Dream) Éric Laurent
  6. Lacanian Biology and the Event of the Body - Part I Jacques-Alain Miller
  7. Lacanian Biology and the Event of the Body - Part II Jacques-Alain Miller
  8. Ashley Hope's Lustmord Josefina Ayerza
  9. Urs Fischer - Unmonumental? Josefina Ayerza
  10. Jason Rhoades - "Le sexe de l'art est une narration" Josefina Ayerza
  11. Sarah Lucas's Self-Portraits Josefina Ayerza

Issue 17

  1. The Desire of Lacan Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Ethics in Psychoanalysis Jacques-Alain Miller
  3. It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew Josefina Ayerza
  4. Der Spiegel interview 1966 Martin Heidegger
  5. Correspondence Between Ernst Jünger and Martin Heidegger
  6. Soldier, Worker, Rebel, Anarch Alain de Benoist
  7. Surplus- Jouissance Slavoj Žižek
  8. A Sophism of Courtly Love Éric Laurent
  9. Gender and Sexuation David Ebony
  10. The Not-All Darian Leader
  11. Saturday Night Fever Catherine Liu
  12. Adrian Dannatt Adrian Dannatt
  13. Infancy Boys/Girls Germán L. García
  14. Three Conclusions Raphael Rubinstein
  15. Anything Can Happen to a Body Barbara Einzig
  16. Secret Celebration Josefina Ayerza
  17. What Remains Max Blagg
  18. What is a picture? Josefina Ayerza
  19. Vintage
  20. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 16

  1. By a Window Overlooking Baltimore Josefina Ayerza
  2. Reflections on the Formal Envelope of the Symptom Jacques-Alain Miller
  3. Kant as Theoretician of Vampirism Slavoj Žižek
  4. Love's Labyrinths Jacques-Alain Miller
  5. Obsessions Jean-Guy Godin
  6. In Quest of the Oulipo Harry Mathews
  7. Angel Atrapado X John Yau
  8. Believe It or Not Michael Turnheim
  9. The Weight of Words Yasmine Grasser
  10. Americans, still one more Effort Josefina Ayerza
  11. Sacrifice and our Destiny Armand Zaloszycn
  12. Why does a Letter always arrive at its Destination? Slavoj Žižek
  13. The Lesbian Session Slavoj Žižek
  14. To Begin With Josefina Ayerza
  15. To Resume Josefina Ayerza
  16. To Resume Again Josefina Ayerza
  17. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 15

  1. Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on Anxiet Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. The Presumed Third Sex Pierre-Gilles Gueguen
  3. Hegel’s Logic as a Theory of Ideology Slavoj Žižek
  4. Scum Soufflé and Lacan's ISR Triad: A Theoretical Lesson for Subversives Frank Smecker
  5. The Case of Auntie Lady Josefina Ayerza
  6. To Interpret the Cause: From Freud to Lacan Jaques-Alain Miller
  7. Moments of Crisis Gil Caroz
  8. Comme des Garçons Josefina Ayerza
  9. The Mother-Daughter relationship after Lacan Nancy Barton
  10. The Nightmare of Plenitude Nancy Barton
  11. Drawings Nortbert Buse
  12. The Uncanny John Friedland
  13. The Navel of the Dream: Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void Jared Russell
  14. A Feminine Academic Jared Russell
  15. The Pére-version of the Political in the Case of Denis Lortie Wolfram Bergande
  16. Lacan Quotidien in English
  17. In Memoriam Federico Gonzalez Alchemical Texts
  18. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 14

  1. Une saison chez Lacan (Ch 5) Pierre Rey
  2. Styles of Life Éric Laurent
  3. When the Image Makes Itself Destiny Marie-Helene Brousse
  4. Marriage, Divorce, and Company Pierre-Gilles Gueguen
  5. From Symptom to Fantasy and Back Jacques-Alain Miller
  6. What Lacan Thought Women Knew: The Real and the Symptom Ellie Ragland
  7. The Paradox Shahriar Vaghfipour
  8. Phallic Convection and the Psychotic as Unsexed Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
  9. Nervenanhang , Nerve-annexation Josefina Ayerza
  10. Organicity John Wallace
  11. Introduction to Encore Francois Regnault
  12. The Real of Violence, Cynicism, and the "Right of Distress" Slavoj Žižek
  13. The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis Jacques-Alain Miller
  14. This is Not a Vanitas--Damien Hirst, a Close Look Gerard Wacjman
  15. Diary Entry, 3 January 2009: War or Linguistic Capering Vladislav Davidzon (not recovered)
  16. Art After Lacan Francois Regnault
  17. Beckett After Joyce // Sinthome as Symptom Rodney Sharkey
  18. A Story From Lacan's Practice
  19. Femininity Between Goodness and Act Slavoj Žižek
  20. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 13

  1. Joyce avec Lacan—Préface Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Medusa Nancy Barton
  3. The Certainty of Hysteria Éric Laurent
  4. Magic and the Link Compliment of the Borromean Rings in America Albert Herter
  5. The Scene of Two Alain Badiou
  6. Exposed Intimacy, Extorted Intimacy Gérard Wajcman
  7. His Master's Voice Mladen Dolar
  8. Lacan, American Pierre-Gilles Guéguen
  9. Castellucci Forever Marie-Hélène Brousse
  10. Femininity, the Sexual, Hysteria Erica
  11. Autism: An Ethical Stake for Our Time Mario Goldenberg
  12. The Costs of Foolish Immigration Restrictions Richard Kostelanetz
  13. Fetishes—Fetish Roger Wartel
  14. There is no sexual relation Josefina Ayerza
  15. Who Comes After the Act Kjell Soleim
  16. The Albanian Object Timothy Lachin
  17. Workings of Love Shahriar Vaghfipour
  18. Oedipus Times Two Kai Hammermeister
  19. Testimony of the Pass in New York Mauricio Tarrab
  20. The Ethics of Hysteria & Psychoanalysis Vicente Palomera
  21. Matrix Jacques-Alain Miller
  22. The Lesbian Session Slavoj Žižek
  23. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 12

  1. The Non-Existent Seminar Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Lacan's Prophecies Jacques-Alain Miller
  3. Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian Rex Butler
  4. Towards a New Concept of Existence Alain Badiou
  5. Why the Idea and Why Communism? Slavoj Žižek
  6. Thoughts about the Current Forms of the Impossible to Teach Éric Laurent
  7. Tattoos Timothy Lachin
  8. Why it's Fun Being a Girl: Witnessing Adolescence in Charlie White Anne Swartz
  9. Mysteries of Love Chiara Mangiarotti
  10. The Text of Revenge Olga Kirillova
  11. Drawing Alain Badiou
  12. Psychoanalysis and Negative Dialectics Philip Pilkington
  13. Benjamin, Adamite Language and Pastiche Master Shahriar Vaghfipour
  14. A Letter which did Arrive at its Destination Slavoj Zizek (not recovered)
  15. The Rio School Massacre Mario Goldenberg
  16. Accumulator Kenneth White (not recovered)
  17. The Rio School Massacre Mario Goldenberg
  18. Barthes' The Neutral Egan Frantz
  19. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 11

  1. The Non-Existent Seminar Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Two Clinical Dimensions: Symptom and Fantasm Jacques-Alain Miller
  3. Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian Rex Butler
  4. The Formulas of l'Étourdit Alain Badiou
  5. Deleuze and the Lacanian Real Slavoj Žižek
  6. Blundering Around, Pondering Aloud Albert Herter
  7. Thoughts about the Current Forms of the Impossible to Teach Éric Laurent
  8. Mysteries of Love Chiara Mangiarotti
  9. A Very Natural Woman Marina Lusa
  10. Drawing Alain Badiou
  11. The Non-Existent Seminar Jacques-Alain Miller
  12. Towards a New Concept of Existence Alain Badiou
  13. Going in Circles Josefina Ayerza
  14. Uses of the Neurosciences for Psychoanalysis Éric Laurent
  15. The Neighbor in Burka Slavoj Žižek
  16. Oscura Estampa Julia Goldenberg
  17. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 10

  1. The Chiasm of Revolution Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Action of the Structure Jacques-Alain Miller
  3. Interview with Jacques Derrida Jean-Luc Nancy
  4. Lacan and Gödel Richard Klein
  5. My Own Private Austri a Slavoj Žižek
  6. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Bruce Fink
  7. My Own Private Austri a Slavoj Žižek
  8. Inhibition, Heautoscopy, Movement Maire Jaanus
  9. The Short Session Pierre-Gilles Guéguen
  10. A Pound of Flesh Charles Shepherdson
  11. Ordinary Psychosis: in the era of the sinthome and semblant Thomas Svolos
  12. Science and Truth: an Introduction I Dylan Evans
  13. Drawing the Impossible Jamieson Webster
  14. Psychoanalysis and Science Éric Laurent
  15. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Bruce Fink
  16. On a Finally Objectless Subject Alain Badiou
  17. Interview with Jacques Derrida Jean-Luc Nancy
  18. Action of the Structure Jacques-Alain Miller
  19. Another Lacan Jacques-Alain Miller
  20. A Monster Found Everywhere Shariar Vaghfipour
  21. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 9

  1. Elements of Epistemology Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Extimity Jacques-Alain Miller
  3. Philosophy as Biography Alain Badiou
  4. Political Texts - The University in the New Reich Martin Heidegger
  5. Heidegger's Existentialism: Political Implications Karl Löwitz
  6. The Dimensions of Art: Udi Aloni's Forgiveness Alain Badiou
  7. The Lacanian Real: Television Slavoj Žižek
  8. Towards a Theory of the Tenured Class Richard Kostelanetz
  9. The Performative: from Ordinary Conventions to the Real Raoul Moati
  10. Text as Morphological Excess Adrian Switzer
  11. Some Remarks on Marcel Duchamp Alain Badiou
  12. Learning from Las Vegas Johannes Thumfart
  13. Féminin singulier: Saintes et exilés Cristina Alvares
  14. Heidegger and Lacan Janne Kurki
  15. Sex is Surface: Ontology and the Play of Signification Jared Russell
  16. ¿Dios ha muerto? Mario Goldenberg
  17. The Florenskian-Iconic as Lacanian Joseph Masheck
  18. Derrida on the Couch: the Perversity of Deconstruction Michael Williams
  19. Visions of Excess Kenneth White
  20. Ser es ser mediático Julia Goldenberg
  21. Editorial Josefina Ayerza

Issue 8

  1. Suture: elements of the logic of the signifier Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Cinema and Suture Jean-Pierre Oudart
  3. Notes on Suture Stephen Heath
  4. Philosophy as Creative Repetition Alain Badiou
  5. The Treatment of the Wolf Child Rosine and Robert Lefort
  6. A Father in the Cut Chiara Mangiarotti
  7. The Phallus is a Signifier Ian Parker
  8. Intime exposé, intime extorqué Gérard Wajcman
  9. Amores y muerte de Virginia Wolf Silvia Tendlarz
  10. L'incubo di un mondo senza Dio Marco Focchi
  11. Lightening Ontology Adrian Johnston
  12. The Future of Another Illusion by Anonymous
  13. Kant with Califia by Yeng-Yin Lai
  14. Perversion and the Sacred by V.W. Lloyd
  15. The Scream of Miss Julie Dominique Ficalora
  16. Antigone and Kurtz by Gray Kane
  17. Beauty and the Satiric by Matt Lau
  18. Mel Gibson at the Serbsky Institute Slavoj Žižek

Issue 7

  1. The Symptom: Knowledge, Meaning and the Real Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Counter-transference is the Symptom of the Analyst Thomas Svolos
  3. Inquiètude qui viens Armand Zaloszyc
  4. Pastoute, lettre, science Cristina Alvares
  5. Conjeturas sobre el psicoanálisis en el siglo XXI Gustavo Dessal
  6. Time Enough for Countin' Allan Pero
  7. Mechanistics, Grammar & the Locality of Thought Louis Armand
  8. Mother, I Chris Tysch
  9. Translating the Transference Patrick Cole Hogan
  10. Lisi James E. Gorney
  11. Frau K and Dora Dona Lopez
  12. Play Fuckin' Loud: Zizek versus the Left Rex Butler and Scott Stephens
  13. Art's Imperative: Speaking the Unspeakable Alain Badiou
  14. Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity Slavoj Žižek

Issue 6

  1. A and a in Clinical Structures Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Affects Stuart Schneiderman
  3. Conducting the Hysteric's Cure Michel Silvestre
  4. Obsession: A Name of the Super Ego Dominique Miller
  5. The Taste of Dasein Janna Kurki
  6. Interview with Butch Morris Alessandro Cassin
  7. Le Tre Estetiche Di Lacan Massimo Recalcati
  8. Dora and the Name of the Father Ellie Ragland-Sullivan
  9. The Technique of Lacanian Psychoanalysis Anna Shane
  10. The Subject of Art Alain Badiou
  11. The Indiscrete Language and the Unrepeatable Marco Focchi
  12. The Act and its Vicissitudes Slavoj Žižek

Issue 5

  1. Σ(x) Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. The Conformity of Perversion Kirsten Hyldgaard
  3. "Let's Bury a Few Liberals!" Alex Betancourt-Serrano
  4. Regard, incarnation et paternité dans Corps du roi, de Pierre Michon. La Photo de Faulkner Christina Alvares
  5. The Use of Perversion: Secretary or the Piano Teacher Frances L. Restuccia
  6. Entrevista a Jorge Aleman Massimo Recalcati
  7. Entravista a Alain Badiou Julia Goldenberg
  8. The Cyclops & the Gnomon Louis Armand
  9. Caso Clinico Paula Contreras
  10. Vanishing Jaime Delgadillo Miranda
  11. A Study in the Suicide of Selfhood Paul Murphy
  12. El Psicoanalisis en el Siglo XXI Damasia Amadeo
  13. Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief Slavoj Žižek

Issue 4

  1. H2O: Suture in Obsessionality Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. The Hysteric's Discourse Gérard Wajcman
  3. Celine's Ultimate Focalization Sigmund Freud
  4. Negation and its Reliabilities Robert Pfaller
  5. J'accuse?: A Critical Approach to Jacques Derrida's Speculation on Freud Alex Betancourt-Serrano
  6. The Semiotics of Schreber's Memoirs: Sign, Sinthome and Play Janet Lucas
  7. Contemporary Sexuality and its Discontents Matthew Sharpe
  8. Transgressional Phenomena: A Psychological Heritage Jaime Delgadillo Miranda
  9. Like a Lizard that Junks its Tail in Distress Pithamber R. Polsani
  10. Torture - A Presence without an Absence Eric Harper
  11. Her or: the Lost Object: A film Project Alan Fair
  12. In his Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large Slavoj Žižek

Issue 3

  1. The Effect of the Subject in the Psychoses Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Fatherhood and Naming in J.Lacan's Works François Sauvagnat
  3. Non-Existence and Sexual Identity Adrian Johnston
  4. The Dream-Interpretation and the Dark Continent of Femininity Paul Murphy
  5. The Symptom in the Machine: Lacan, Joyce, Sollers Louis Armand
  6. Showing in Disguise: The Subject's Perspective Anuradha Bhattacharyya
  7. Lacan, Foucault: el debate sobre el "construccioniesmo" Jorge Aleman
  8. La Lingua Indiscreta e L'Irritepetibile Marco Focchi
  9. The Interpassive Subject Slavoj Žižek

Issue 2

  1. A Contribution of the Schizophrenic to the Psychoanalytic Clinic Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy Alain Badiou
  3. The Forced Choice of Enjoyment Adrian Johnston
  4. If the French Lieutenant Never Existed Olga Kirillova
  5. Lead in the Looking Glass Jack Bedell
  6. The Insistence of Lacan on Woman as the Letter M.A. Franks
  7. Hamlet/Machine Louis Armand
  8. The Taming of the Real Frances L. Restuccia
  9. Lacan, Kojve und Las meninas von Velázquez Wolfram Bergande
  10. Welcome to the Desert of the Real Slavoj Žižek

Issue 1

  1. Drive is Parole Jacques-Alain Miller
  2. Some Moral Failings Called Depression Pierre Skriabine
  3. The Conflicts of the Obsessional Neurotic Christian Kupke
  4. A Cage Went in Search of a Bird David Ratmoko
  5. El legado de Freud Mario Goldenberg
  6. Le Mort Qui Parle: Communication and Jouissance in Mathematics Cristiano Husu
  7. Auster's Austerity Alejandra Glaze
  8. Past and Future of Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Thomas Svolos
  9. Photographie et Réel Cristina Alvares
  10. Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today ? Slavoj Žižek