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Summary of Claroscuro and Página literal articles,
under the direction and authorship of Ginnette Barrantes
Claroscuro
A little bit of skin, Bare Performance.
Claroscuro #4. (2016) The question for the body, of the analyst, the analyzer, of the Moses of Micheal Angelo, of the Other, orbits -since its origin in Freud- around psychoanalytic history. Side by side with Mayette Viltard and Suzanne Hommels we sail on the cuestion, How does Lacan-analyst...
Sidonie Csillag, A speaking image
Claroscuro #3. (2013) What is a speaking image? If answered —in a rush— Sidone Csillag, we might catch a glimpse of an answer that must be much broader and complex. Primarily, we should think the consequences that this becoming-image, becoming-voice without own word, in this complex network, that...
Antigone, untreatable or unnamable?
Claroscuro#2. (2011) Antigone is one of those characters that swim in an ocean of bibliography that speaks of themself, crossing through time, refreshing the notion that her tragedy is as endless and contemporary as any classical text could be. Under the inquiry: Is Antigone untreatable or...
Página Literal
Truth, that strange object.
Truth, that strange object. Parrhesia and the function of the word in analytic experience. Página Literal #8-9. (Costa Rica, 2008) Can all be said? Is it in the word where the truth can be found? How to take position and what to do when faced with our truth? These sorts of questions are the ones...
Shiver Freud, a critical reading of Three essays of Sexual Theory by S. Freud
Página Literal#7. (Costa Rica, 2007). In regard to Leo Bersani's visit to Costa Rica in 2006. One of the most innovative concepts created by psychoanalysis is simultaneously one of the most elusive and resistant concepts against the statues of power and knowledge of each period: sexuality....
The passage to Spanish, of the commentary by Jacques Lacan to the Dick case of Melanie Klein
The passage to Spanish, of the commentary by Jacques Lacan to the Dick case of Melanie Klein. Página Literal #5-6 The trace of Jacques Lacan is not exempt of misunderstandings, family plots, exercises of power and an unbearable ambiguity in regards to the legitimacy of what is known as his “work”....