‘Call For Papers’ for the online journal Vestigia Volume 4, Issue 2:
In Seminar XVII (11th March 1970) Lacan made some interesting remarks about brotherhood and its relationship to segregation. As the Oedipus myth, this refers to a fundamental exclusion constitutive of human being. He was commenting here on Freud’s thesis in Totem and Taboo, founded on the Ernst Sellin’s earlier exegesis of Genesis, and noticed that popular discourse concerning the brotherhood of man was deficient because it failed to take account of segregation; being separated, left out or cut out (se-grego, set apart from the flock or herd), which necessarily precedes any belonging (congregation).
We are seeking papers on any aspect of this theme suitable to the general aims of our journal.
You can email your articles to the Vestigia journal editorial: info@vestigiajournal.com
‘Call For Papers’ for the online journal Vestigia Volume 5, Issue 1:
Since 7th October 2023 there has been a huge rise in anti Semitism. Hatred of the Jews has a long history. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew and Christianity originally a Jewish movement founded on a belief that Jesus was the Messiah (anointed one; Christ in Greek). Christians continued to consider the Jewish scriptures divinely inspired. Yet despite this, Christianity was largely responsible for the persecution of the Jews in the Middle Ages. Freud himself knew anti Semitism first hand and had to leave Vienna for London to escape the Nazis. A number of his own family died in Auschwitz. Many of the early analysts were Jewish and had similar personal histories. How does psychoanalysis read the phenomenon of anti Semitism? Can its understanding of hate, aggression, conflict, splitting, difference etc. help us make any sense of it?
We are seeking papers on any aspect of this theme suitable to the general aims of our journal.
You can email your articles to the Vestigia journal editorial: info@vestigiajournal.com