To Be Continued?...
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today

Part II
16–18 April 2024

Holden M. Rasmussen
Marisa Žele
Aleš Mendiževec
Voranc Kumar
Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
Arka Chattopadhyay
Boštjan Nedoh
Tadej Troha
Adrian Johnston
Mladen Dolar
Henrik Jøker Bjerre
Aleš Bunta
Adam Potts
Alenka Zupančič
Lorenzo Chiesa
Joan Copjec
Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Moritz Herrmann
Arsalan Reihanzadeh
Paris Lavidis
Nadia Bou Ali
Peter Klepec
Mohamed Tal
Frank Ruda
Ray Brassier


Part I
15–17 November 2023

Holden M. Rasmussen
Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Moritz Herrmann
Paris Lavidis
Vesna Liponik
Arsalan Reihanzadeh
Adrian Johnston
Jelica Šumič Riha
Tadej Troha
Boštjan Nedoh
Marisa Žele
Aleš Bunta
Peter Klepec
Alenka Zupančič
Lorenzo Chiesa


To Be Continued? ... 
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  • We can certainly say that the dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalysis, however prolix, has so far proved very difficult, ever since the latter’s inception. Is there such thing as a philosophy-psychoanalysis relationship? Or has it always been only empty speech? In that case, should it be continued?
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Emily Laurent-Monaghan (Newcastle University)


Du rapport a-sexual au sexe: the Freudian organ and the Lacanian organon


Typically, receptions of Lacan’s theory, or rather logic, of sexuation—even favorable ones —subtract the dimension of organ (the phallus) from any reading of the organon or “tool.” By contrast: (1) The reproduction of the human species, in the absence of a sexual relation, is vitally dependent on its “stable habitat” (stabitat), i.e., the semblant One of language. (2) The phallus is not only the (Freudian) organ that “gives rise” to the (Lacanian) organon—i.e., the latter isa means of formalizing the former—but, precisely, the human animal’s very own tool for resolving the discordance between the nya of the sexual relation and the semblant One. (3) The formulae of sexuation are thus governed by the phallic function, each “half” (moitié) of the table of sexuation being understood, in the one or the other way, phallically.