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A neuroscientist claims that eternal love belongs only to geniuses. Provocation, or clinical truth? This piece explores why duration, routine, and wear test every couple — and how, despite ourselves, every argument becomes a melodrama.

In this 1934 tango, Discépolo paints the portrait of a century where moral distinctions collapse: the thief is worth the honest man, the scholar worth the fool, everything jumbled together like items in a pawnshop window. A piece both disillusioned and fiercely lucid.

Proust and gender: this piece rereads the famous encounter between Charlus and Jupien — and the orchid scene that frames it — through the lens of Deleuze, Guattari, and Preciado. Between botanical allegory and a theory of desire, a look at what Proust invents, without naming it, about gender itself.

The function of the orgasm, for Reich, isn't a matter of a distant threat to sexuality: man is already sick, in his entire body. This piece explores what this semantic nuance — lost in the French translation — reveals about Reich's sexual economy, between Oedipus, neurosis, and his sweeping ambition to cure even fascism itself.

The incommunicable, according to Pierre Klossowski: a quote drawn from Les lois de l'hospitalité, on the meeting of two idiosyncrasies that recognize each other in what they can share with no one else — until one of them, exposing itself to the world, betrays that silent pact.

Addiction or disease? Narcotics Anonymous claims that addiction is a chronic illness; the WHO, meanwhile, stays silent on its severity. This piece questions that assumption in light of Peter Sloterdijk's more radical questions: where does the very idea of "addiction" actually come from?

Narcissism and the sea squirt: before becoming plant-like, this marine organism has a full nervous system — which it digests itself, once settled, never to move again. A biological fable, drawn from Llinás and Jules Verne, introducing the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism.

Compression, not understanding: this is the shift Lacan proposes in his 1967 address to psychiatrists. This piece explores how psychiatry, in seeking to "place the madman at the center," flattens rather than listens to him — and why the existence of the psychiatrist never implies the existence of the madman.