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THE “WORLD IN THE SINGULAR” EXHIBITION

Programme PIPOL 8 – Saturday/Sunday

A Non-standard Soirée at The Tricoterie!

My Way 30 – Super-heroes, with-out Norm?

The Freedom of the Gesture of the Street Artist, in the Face of Normalising and Disciplinary Pressures!

Superheroes, out-of-the-norm?

[caption id="attachment_5999" align="aligncenter" width="1004"] Everybody will have recognized Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man and Gérard Wajcman[/caption]   Superheroes and their superpowers seem to be

Is Transparent a series on the particularities of the transgender?

In his "Note on the Father" in 1968, Lacan predicted "a ramified, reinforced segregation intersecting all levels" linked to the "evaporation of

An interview with the filmmaker Jessica Woodworth about her new movie “King of the Belgians”

Céline Aulit — Your film tells the story of a man who is crushed by protocol. As a result of a number

Photography and psychoanalysis: two years, three cities, five encounters

An initiative of the Bulgarian Society of Lacanian Psychoanalysis on the theme of the encounters of Photography and Psychoanalysis began in 2015

SAMO©, Graffiti, a social affront

Basquiat had a glimpse of the rough street life, when he began to wander, in his many fugues ... He speaks of

SAMO©, Graffiti, a social affront

Producing strength through weakness

Last December, at the National Theatre in Brussels, I discovered an artist unclassifiable by today’s standards of performing arts, opera, circus or

Antonin Artaud’s non-standard body

“I have only one occupation, to remake myself”[1] [organ, fragmented body, theatre]   In “L’étourdit” Lacan indicates that for the speaking being [parlêtre] the

Angry White Men – Escaping the Feminist Norm

A vast man-o-sphere has been developing over the last few years on the Web, mainly in the United States. Furiously misogynist and

Optimal Mental Health

"The lure of 'positive' mental health when the choice is made via the norm rather than the singularity of the subject." In Canada,

A Father Who Says Yes

The particularity of desire against the ideal. In his second topology, Freud explains how the Oedipus complex finds its resolution. Under the threat

DSM, from diagnosis to practice. New norms, new techniques, therapeutic innovations in mental health. Progress?

Since the development of computers, human beings have been handled in terms of programming. The contemporary master makes use of statistics to

Parental Burn-out

In November 2016, the Belgian media broadcast the results of a survey conducted by the University of Louvain-La-Neuve, which wanted to know

Welcoming the Flood

Analytic discourse approaches the family on the basis of the jouissance which is at stake for the subject. Often idealised, the family

Jouissance of the Joyce Word

Reading Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is an encounter with singularity, a vicariously bruising encounter, blessedly joyful, often surprising and yet sometimes, when the

Babouillec Sp, poet out-of-norms

Since Freud, psychoanalysis has interested itself in writing, in order to teach us about the most intimate and most strange. When literary

Autists : They don’t manage to hear what you have to say to them, in so far as you are caring for them (1)

Autists : They don’t manage to hear what you have to say to them, in so far as you are caring for

The inside-out of the norm practice

When I started my work in a therapeutic service (2006, Ireland) my manager firmly stated “do not use psychoanalysis here” as if

The Modernity, that Blows up the Mainstays

In our clinical practice in a mental health service in Ruse, a city in the Northern part of Bulgaria, we more and

Non-Standardised Clinical Practice – as Principle

  "The essence of any formation in human beings is - and not by accident - to curb jouissance", wrote Lacan[1]. In the

The Creation in Belgium of a Collective of Practitioners of the Speech Act

In what context did this Belgian Law concerning mental health care professions, instituted by Maggie De Block (Minister for Social Affairs and

…Moscow, Dublin, Barcelona… Breaking News on Norms

Can the logic of Mental Health and the logic of Psychoanalysis ever be reconciled? This question will undoubtedly resonate during the next

A clinic made to measure, on the margins of the frame

As part of the work towards Pipol 8 being carried out by the Catalan Community of the ELP, Hebe Tizio reminded us

The Serial Medicalisation of Psy Care Practices

Since the 1980s, a wave of scientism has engulfed the exception that constitutes French clinical psychiatry, reducing it to a medical practice

A threshold clinic

That morning, following the initiative of the CPCT of Lyon we had gathered in a municipal hall. General practitioners, social workers, psychologists

A Normal Delinquant or Justice and Psychoanalysis : an impossible conversation ?

Mrs T, elegant and impeccably dressed, came to see me to do me the honour of letting me care for her. She

From the norm, take advantage of singularity!

A subject received in a "mono symptom" service arrives, referring to his symptom, -extracted from a medical standard-, with a name that

Addiction

The addicted subject, in repetitive consumption, seeks to regulate something with regard to the body and the Other. Is there a search

Toxicosis: A Case of Feminine Hysteria in the Time of the Parlêtre

The case can be constructed from the end of the analysis and the pass. “Toxicosis” is the name of the sinthome produced

About the norm

European standards (norms), international, organic, ISO, seismic, standards for people with disabilities, fire, thermal, electrical, social, educational, labor standards, etc. The list

The segregation men/women and its future

What is happening with the oldest segregation of the world – the segregation of men/women in modernity? The different « discourses » as defined by

Does social exclusion constitute a destiny for the contemporary subject?

In our times of crisis, more and more subjects have recourse to mental health services and facilities. They are people who suffer

Dead subject, creative parlêtre

The characteristic of the parlêtre is the body significantised by being gripped in language, in this lining that we call the unconscious.

Body practices and social bond

What is the basis of today’s (contemporary) norm? It is based on the non-existence of the Other. This norm is not linked