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68 published posts on psychoanalysis, film, and culture.
Sorry, Baby (2025): Film Analysis
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…
Read essayMarty Supreme (2026): Film Analysis
A Lacanian reading of Marty Supreme reveals a film structured by obsessional desire, maternal enigma, paternal absence, and the fantasy of total satisfaction. Marty’s pursuit of table-tennis supremacy becomes an Oedipal drama of deferral, humiliation,…
Read essayCinema, Silence, and the Real. Three Events with Peter Jansson in Berlin
This January, I am delighted and honored to host Peter Jansson in Berlin. Over three events, we will explore cinema, psychoanalysis, and philosophy through a shared question. What can film show us when words fail.…
Read postWhen Reflection Does Not Implicate
In analytic work one often encounters subjects who speak with ease. They reflect, explain, analyse, and articulate their condition with clarity. They can recount their history, describe their relations to others, and situate their difficulties…
Read essayWhat Makes the Desire of the Analyst
The text discusses the motivations behind becoming a psychoanalyst, emphasizing that intentions of healing and understanding typically stem from fantasy, which misaligns with the true role of an analyst. It argues that actual desire for…
Read essayLove is Giving What You Do Not Have: A Lacanian Reading of Plato’s Symposium 
Join us for a reading seminar of Lacan's seminar on transference-love. I will be giving a seminar for the lovely Perrhesia School of Philosophy in Berlin. Starts: 13 May – ends 10 June (5 Tuesdays) Where: Golda Books…
Read postFeelings Are Always Reciprocal
Lacan reminds us: love is not necessarily mutual. In analysis, it is the patient who loves, and the analyst who listens. This non-reciprocal love—far from being cold—is what makes psychoanalysis possible. Only by refusing to…
Read essayWorking with Neurodiversity: Freud Lacan Institute Workshop in Dublin
I am excited to announce that I will be conducting a three-hour workshop on “Working with Neurodiversity” as part of the Program of Continuing Studies (PCS) at the Freud Lacan Institute in Dublin. 📅 Date: Saturday,…
Read postSecond Instalment of the ‘Psychoanalytic Act’
This seminar offers a deep dive into Lacan's psychoanalytic approach. The second installment spans five sessions, covering topics like transference, diagnosis, interpretations, the analyst's desire, and clinical case study building. It's open to all, whether…
Read postThe Politics of Diagnosis Workshop
This week, in collaboration with Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics, we start a three-day workshop on the historical, political and social dynamics involved in diagnosis. The workshop will take place every Thursday 8pm Berlin…
Read postChristmas Break for the Lacan Guided Reading Group in Berlin
The Lacan guided reading group will take a two week vacation in light of the holidays. We will see each other again on the 8th of January, as usual, at 19h – Stillpoint Spaces, Berlin.…
Read postDemand (minus – ) Need (equals = ) Desire
Babies and cats are spoiled and selfish creatures. That is why, whenever I am faced with my cat's selfish narcissistic tendencies, I ask myself – "can these creatures even have the capacity to love?" Faced with…
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