Sit Venia Verbo

Forgive the Word; Lacan's commentary on Freud's phrase "Sit Venia Verbo"

Cartel reading of ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis’, delivered to colleagues of the Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ISLP) at the June 2024 study day in Dublin.

Psychoanalysis Upside Down

Signorelli The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

A reading of weeks 4 & 5 in the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 17, with reference to Georges Politzer’s Critique of the Foundations of Psychology

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Paper delivered over Zoom to ISLP Inter-Cartel Day 2021 interrogating the “non-pudes errent” riddle in Lacan’s 21st seminar ‘Les-Non-Dupes-Errent’.

Strange Dreams

Cormac McCarthy Strange Dreams Unconscious Kekulé Problem

“the unconscious has no pencil or notepad and certainly no eraser” – Cormac McCarthy