Chart of 16 logical functions including Vel, Aut, Vel of Alienation : 5th April 2025 : Richard Klein with Notes on Seminar XI : Julia Evans
Index of post Chart of Vel, Aut, Vel of Alienation by Richard Klein Vel as in Seminar XI by Julia Evans Commentary on Alienation and Separation in Seminar XI by Éric Laurent Some other texts on Lacan’s use of Mathematics and Topology *** Chart of Vel, Aut, Vel of Alienation by Richard Klein Richard Klein’s chart can be downloaded [...]
Using Sigmund Freud’s Term Schaulust, translated as Scopophilia and Voyeurism : 24th March 2025 : Julia Evans
Conclusion Schaulust, Sigmund Freud’s term, should replace Scopophilia and Voyeurism which are James Strachey’s translations. Jacques Lacan encourages this on 13th May 1964. *** Index Jacques Lacan statement on Schaulust, 13th May 1964 Some German-English translations Sigmund Freud’s use of Schaulust in Three Essays on Sexuality, 1905 Jacques Lacan’s earlier comments on Schaulust, scopophilia, voyeurism Jacques Lacan’s clinical example, Little [...]
Angst translated as Anxiety in Sigmund Freud’s texts : 26th February 2025 : Julia Evans
INDEX Background Angst as a physical (body) tension, which cannot enter the psychic field : Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud on difference between 'ängstlich’ & ‘nervös' / James Strachey & Julia Evans on translating them ‘I will only say that I think ‘Angst’ relates to the state and disregards the object’ : Sigmund Freud ‘Angst’ as ‘Fear’ and ‘heightened tenderness [...]
Tracing Jacques Lacan’s ‘Love as “giving what you do not have” ‘ : 23rd February 2025 : Julia Evans
This text was originally published in the notes to Seminar X, as well as in Seminar IV and in Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality, probably Winter 2019. The quotations from these texts are in date order - -23rd January 1957 Seminar IV -Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality : 1958 [Presented in Amsterdam, 5th September [...]
Note on Translating Angst & L’Angoisse as Anxiety : 20th February 2025 : Julia Evans
Background This is an attempt to consolidate notes in Downloading Sigmund Freud : 1st August 2024 (from February 2012), see this site /3 Sigmund Freud (Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts) Lecture XXV The Angst [Die Angst] : 1917 : Sigmund Freud 21st November 1962 Seminar X From the Anguish (De l’angoisse) (1962-1963) : begins 14th November 1962 : Jacques Lacan, [...]
Exploring ‘Dit-Mansion’ for ‘Dimension’ in Seminar IV : 15th February 2025 : Julia Evans
This explores the possibility that Lacan was starting to use his neologism ‘dit-mansion’, transcribed as dimension, in his Seminar IV. The Agency of the Letter (9th May 1957) was given at the same time as the last sessions of Seminar IV. [See ‘Dit-Mansion’ for ‘Dimension’ in ‘Agency/Instance/ Insistence of the Letter’ : 3rd February 2025 : Julia Evans on [...]
‘Dit-Mansion’ for ‘Dimension’ in ‘Agency/Instance/Insistence of the Letter’ : 3rd February 2025 : Julia Evans
In revisiting the references for Éric Laurent’s (2021) text[i], Jacques Lacan’s neologism was rediscovered - dit-mansion. [said-mansion or building] This is the quote from Éric Laurent, p49, According to Lacan, the dit-mansion of the letter implies a certain instance) a certain insistence, a certain forcing in order to be included in the signifying weft, and the significations that are [...]
A Submission into Parliament – Statement on Statutory Regulation in Counselling & Psychotherapies : 20th January 2025 : Julia Evans
Statement on Statutory Regulation in Counselling & Psychotherapies : 20th January 2025 : Julia Evans NOTE : This was lost in transit by Royal Mail twice, so finally reached Parliament on Thursday 20th March 2025.The following statement was sent to Ms Layla Moran MP, Chair of Health and Social Care Committee, with this introductory letter: Dear Ms Moran, The link [...]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Therapy, 1) in the future of NHS Talking Therapies 2) in state therapy with the hollowing out of intersubjectivity : 14th January 2025 : Paul Atkinson
The links for these texts were received on 14th January 2025. Both texts on AI therapy are on the Mental Health Action website: Part 1 Machina Ex Deo: AI and the future of NHS Talking Therapies https://mentalhealthaction.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ai-part-1-p-atkinson.pdf Part 2 Machina Ex Deo: State therapy and the hollowing out of intersubjectivity https://mentalhealthaction.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ai-part-2-p-atkinson-2.pdf Both texts focus on what is happening in [...]
Don’t just do something – The vanishing art of sitting there in counselling & psychotherapy : 9th December 2024 : Andy Rogers
This link is published here as Andy Rogers’ position is alongside a Lacanian position in the transference & he makes many interesting observations. The Link : https://www.andyrogerscounselling.com/therapy-blog/2024/12/09/dont-just-do-something-vanishing-art-sitting-there-counselling-psychotherapy Andy and I (Julia Evans) have been alongside since 2008 as members of the Alliance for Psychotherapy and Counselling. There follows a related list of texts from the Alliance or other members [...]
Voices from the INSIDE (Prisons) : 24th November 2024 : Rona Epstein (Centre for Crime & Justice Studies)
A report from the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/voices-inside ) on condition in prisons Reasons for linking to this report - it relies on testimonies from individuals – one by one - it is a case study in what systematic inhumanity produces, both in prisoners and prison officers I, Julia Evans, have categorised it under its author’s [...]
Statement on Statutory Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy : 2nd November 2024 : The Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy
The Statement that has been sent into the Parliamentary Health & Social Care Committee is available from Statement on Statutory Regulation in Counselling & Psychotherapies : 20th January 2025 : Julia Evans at this site / b) Ethics & Treatments (2 Engagement with beyond/ Government Action)**************************************************************Additional Guardian articles & text were added to this text on 9th November 2024. JE [...]