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Texts on Lacanian psychoanalysis
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Why Is a Session Cut Short?
In this piece I discuss the cut — the ending of the session, one of the hallmarks of Lacanian psychoanalysis — and its relation to the desire of the analyst.
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Masters Today: Politics and the Clinic
Are masters still alive? Or, in our techno-capitalist age, has the master ceased to be a “person” and become an “apparatus” — embodied under names like algorithms, metrics, performance charts, trends, the market, scientific data? This text examines how the master's discourse works and the forms it takes today, in clinical and political contexts.
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Becoming a Couple, Staying a Couple
Here I take up what it means to become a couple and to stay one, from a psychoanalytic perspective. To be clear: this is not a “how to find a partner” or “how to improve your relationship” kind of text.
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Lacanian Discourses
Lacan says there are four types of discourse: the master's discourse, the university discourse, the analytic discourse and the hysteric's discourse.
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The Mirror Stage
When Lacan is mentioned, the mirror stage is one of the first concepts that comes to mind — especially in the academic world.
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Trauma from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
A talk given at the “The Psychoanalytic Clinic from Freud to Lacan” symposium organised on 7–8 February 2020 by the Psychoanalytic Research Association and Bahçeşehir University.
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Hate and the Other
A talk given at the “Love and Hate” symposium organised on 12 October 2019 by the Psychoanalytic Research Association, Saint Benoît Lycée and Bahçeşehir University.
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Psychoanalysis and Sexual Identity
The fourth issue of the Psikanaliz Defterleri series (Yapı Kredi Yayınları) is devoted to “Child and Adolescent Sexuality.” Below is a taste of this piece, in which I try to convey how psychoanalysis answers — and reopens — questions of sexuality and sexual identity.
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On Child Psychoanalysis
A talk given on 1 July 2018 at the Lacanian Summer Seminar held in the Cezayir Salon.
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