Psych Reviews

A Kindling Self Case studies are where the rubber meets the road in psychology, and psychoanalysis was challenged to produce results beyond theory, but each theory, and each theorist focused on a very particular area as their contribution to the overall F…

Marriage and Divorce [updated] To keep things neat and tidy, this will be a reference post on marriage and divorce as other episodes bump into this topic.

Prohibition and Desire After we left Jacques Lacan with his awareness of the cross-purposes of his marriage, he nevertheless started a family with Malou.

Psychical Causality With the foundational understanding of the mirror stage, and its imaginary stability against fragmentation, Jacques Lacan had to come up with his own theory of the psychogenesis of mental illness against, “…a doctrine of mental problems

Family Complexes Jacques Lacan wanted to take the usual understanding of family, where it’s the responsibility of parents to raise their children to survive and thrive, and to expand that definition with the exploration of cultural influences that go beyo…

Analyst or Analysand?

Warning: Grisly violence, Sexual Themes, Suicidal content Review of Hallucinations With paranoia and schizophrenia, it’s easy to get lost on the differences between different types of delusions, and deliriums.

Blood in Antithesis Madame Duflos In the modern world, there is plenty of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis activity going on as described by Hegel, but unfortunately, any kind of prediction of where it will go and how it will end up continues to surp…

Accused as being impenetrable, a fraud and a charlatan, Jacques Lacan was also described as an autistic dandy stringing out his followers for a truth they would never find.

Meno includes a disarming question: Can you explain what virtue is, or is it something we just assume we know?

In Gorgias, Plato unleashed one of his most searing critiques of power, rhetoric, and moral compromise.

Plato’s Protagoras stages an intellectual showdown between Socrates and the famous sophist on a vital question: Can virtue be taught?