Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Berlin
Sorry, Baby is a rigorous meditation on trauma, subjectivity, and the unstable aftermath of sexual violence. Rather than reducing trauma to a single event, I argue that the film locates the traumatic in the subject’s fractured relation to what has occurred, showing how meaning fails to settle and how institutional, medical, and interpersonal responses often intensify that fracture rather than resolve it.
"The word is the murder of the thing" says Lacan. Even more so the written word, that is never truly "full," always lacking the subjective context and performative power incorporated in one's enunciative presence. Therefore, it comes with no surprise that reading Lacan's published seminars—while being usually quite engaging—lacks a certain presence that was only… Continue reading Lacan’s Gribouille
Dear readers, I am happy to invite you to our new reading session starting Tuesday (29/05), 19:00, at our round table at Stillpoint Spaces, Berlin (66, Hobrechtstraße, 12047 Berlin). This time we are going to tackle a chapter from Lacan's 11th seminar. This is exciting because the topic of "alienation and separation" is central in… Continue reading Lacan Guided Reading Group \ Berlin
Leon Brenner 