Fragments

"Jacques Lacan continues to be the subject of the most extravagant interpretations, by turns idolised and demonised. But the context has changed: the heroic age of psychoanalysis has come to an end; we are witnessing the proliferation of psychotherapies – a thousand and one ways of alleviating contemporary suffering through practices that are increasingly regulated by the state. To recall, in these circumstances, what the Lacanian movement was all about is, first and foremost

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.

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.