https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/117 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1348 Jane Avril, a former patient of the Salpêtrière, feigned the grand hysterical attack to escape the medicalizing grasp of psychiatry through a practice of dissimulation. This maneuver involves a tactic where the “fake” becomes a dodge, granting the nosographic gaze the idiocy of diagnostic gratification to deceive it at a deeper level. It is here that the mimetic and metamorphic art of Charcot’s patients becomes the dancing subversion of a power relationship, thanks to the hysterical metonymy’s ability to evade any clinical capture. The demand for hysterical dance, which Jane transposes from the “clinical theater” of the Salpêtrière to the stage of the Moulin Rouge, eroticizes the impossible, engaging with life and mocking the “master”. It is this “menadic” nature of hysterical desire that uncouples the erotic body from the normativity of biology. My contribution will seek to investigate, in reference to the conceptual figure of Jane Avril, not only within a genealogy of “transference neurosis” but also in the context of its differential framing compared to other clinical and psychoanalytic constellations, the subversive trait of hysteria and its decisive role in the economy of desire. mar., 25 juin 2024 16:40:50 +0200 mar., 29 oct. 2024 09:48:07 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1348 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/640 The biographical story of Joan of Arc can be read in psychoanalytic terms as a response to the call of the divine Other. While Joan cannot be categorized as a mystic, it is necessary to avoid framing her within the clinical realm of psychosis or delirium. Joan of Arc embodies, rather, the possibility of another form of enjoyment, in Lacan’s terms “Other enjoyment” or “feminine enjoyment”, which challenges the phallic claim to occupy the field of jouissance. lun., 08 janv. 2024 15:35:31 +0100 jeu., 15 févr. 2024 16:52:47 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/640 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/577 The Tramp, through his usual grace and clumsiness, unintentionally takes on the role of father, that someone else chose to abandon. He therefore gives us to see a way to be a father after, in Lacan’s words, “the evaporation of the father”, by tinkering with rather than overhanging the situation, by floating rather than slowing people and things, as well as by reinventing himself rather than sticking to an ideal. He also conveys to today’s spectators the image of their own malaise while comforting them. jeu., 04 janv. 2024 10:48:56 +0100 jeu., 15 févr. 2024 15:31:41 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/577 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/903 Collodi’s Pinocchio can be read as a psychoanalytical novel, interpreting its characters as conceptual figures. Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott’s theories are considered in order to understand the psychological development of Pinocchio’s character. Particularly, this essay considers the relationship between Pinocchio and the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, suggesting that the transformation of Pinocchio from a puppet to a child is the plastic representation of an inner evolution. Pinocchio’s escapes and mischiefs should be considered as part of a peculiar dialectic, played by Pinocchio himself and the Fairy, involving desire, lack and love. This work tries to explore the libidinal dynamics of this classical novel of children’s literature. lun., 15 janv. 2024 11:39:18 +0100 mar., 13 févr. 2024 11:01:12 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/903 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/256 Letters are always written for the Other. More specifically, they are addressed to the inconsistency of the big Other, as a protest against its powerlessness. The childish complaint aimed to the Other’s evanescence, in accord with Lacanian psychoanalysis, can be understood in terms of perversion, particularly in its masochistic variant. When Kafka blames his own father for having used rude educational means, he actually blames him for not being powerful enough: according to Slavoj Žižek, this can be ascribed to a perverse strategy which tries to restore the Other’s power in order to reanimate the Self. mer., 29 nov. 2023 11:00:18 +0100 mar., 13 févr. 2024 09:21:00 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/256 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/111 Antigone breaks with parental rule although, in order to go beyond all identities and defend every humiliated body. Her desire is the symbolic recovery of Jocasta’s body and the birth of a non-birth girl. Thus, how happens this birth of a non-birth subject ? In order to answer this question we run through Marquis de Sade desire’s fantasy and the zig zag of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan too. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:30:46 +0100 ven., 19 janv. 2024 15:21:27 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/111