Volume 1, Issue 2, August 2018 – Vestigia Journal

The cover shows a detail of the central panel of a late 15^th or early 16^th century triptych by Hieronymus Bosch. It is housed in the Prado in Madrid.

Volume 1, Issue 2, August 2018

ISSN 2732-5849

EDITORIAL: John Gale

ARTICLES

Animée animalité

Jean-Luc Nancy teaches philosophy at the University of Strasburg and previously taught at the University of California San Diego. His works include: with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Le titre de la lettre. Une lecture de Lacan (Paris: Galilée, 1973) and L’Absolu littéraire (Paris: Le Seuil, 1978); La communauté désœuvrée (Paris: 1986, 2001); L’expérience de la liberté (Paris: Galilée, 1988); Être singulier pluriel (Paris: 1996); Hegel, L’inquiétude du négatif (Paris: 1997); Le regard du portrait (Paris: Galilée, 2000); L’ « il y a » du rapport sexuel (Paris: Galilée, 2001).

Vestigia Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, pages 8-10

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Uninvited animals

Oxana Timofeeva

Oxana Timofeeva is an Associate Professor at the European University at St. Petersburg, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the artistic collective Chto Delat (What is to be done?), a deputy editor of the journal Stasis and the author of The History of Animals (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) and Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (Moscow: 2009).

Vestigia Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, pages 11-31

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Not being able to live otherwise. Kafka, the animal, the artist

Francesco Raparelli

Francesco Raparelli earned a PhD in philosophy. He collaborates with the University Roma Tre and is among the founders of the Libera Università Metropolitana (LUM) at ESC Atelier (Rome) of which he is an activist. He has published: La lunghezza dell’Onda. Fine della sinistra e nuovi movimenti (Ponte alle Grazie, 2009) and Rivolta o barbarie. La democrazia del 99 per cento contro i signori della moneta (Ponte alle Grazie, 2012). He has edited Istituzione e differenza. Attualità di Ferdinand de Saussure (Mimesis, 2014).

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 32-37

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Will the lambs still scream? On the silence of animals

Cristiana Cimino

Cristiana Cimino is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a Freudian and Lacanian training. She is Full Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA). She is member of Laboratorio dell’Istituto di Studi Filosofici. She has been co-editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a member of the editorial board of Vestigia. She has long worked on the thought of the psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli. She has published several texts on specialized journals, in various languages. She is the author of Il discorso amoroso. Dall’amore della madre al godimento femminile (Rome: Manifestolibri, 2015). She practices in Rome.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 38-43

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Conditioned reflexes and the symbolic order : a Lacanian assessment of Ivan Pavlov’s experimental practice

Hub Zwart studied philosophy and psychology at Radboud University, Nijmegen and defended his thesis (cum laude) in 1993. In 2000 he was appointed as full professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Science (RU Nijmegen). In 2003, he became director of the Centre for Society and Genomics (CSG) and in 2005 Director of the Institute for Science in Society. His research focuses on philosophical and ethical dimensions of bioscience (synthetic biology, nanomedicine, brain research) from a continental philosophical perspective (dialectics, psychoanalysis), while special attention is given to genres of the imagination (novels, theatre, poetry, movies) as windows into emerging techno-scientific research fields. He is co-editor-in-chief of the open access Springer journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy.

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Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 44-69

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Animals have no hand: an essay on animality in Derrida

Leonard Lawlor is Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University (USA). He is the author of eight books, including The Challenge of Bergsonism (Continuum, 2003); The Implications of Immanence (Fordham University Press, 2006); and most recently, From Violence to Speaking Out (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 70-93

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Animal sacrum. Animal difference

Sergio Benvenuto

Sergio Benvenuto is a former researcher in psychology and philosophy at the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome and a psychoanalyst. He is editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Discourse (PSYAD). He teaches psychoanalysis at the International Institute of the Psychology in Kiev. He is a contributor to cultural and scientific journals such as Lettre Internationale, L’évolution psychiatrique and American Imago. His publications in English include: Wittgenstein and Lacan Reading Freud (http://www.journal- psychoanalysis.eu/wittgenstein-and-lacan-reading-freud1/); ‘Perversion and charity: an ethical approach’ in D. Nobus and L. Downing (eds.) Perversion. Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (London: Karnac, 2006); with A. Molino In Freud’s Tracks (New York: Aronson, 2008) nominated for Gradiva Award; The Monsters Next Door American Imago 69 (4): 435-48, 2012; The Gaze of the Blind. Notes on Cézanne and Cubism American Imago 70 (3): 385-406, 2013; Does Perversion Need the Law? in W. Müller-Funk, I. Scholz-Strasser, H. Westerink (eds.) Psychoanalysis, Monotheism and Morality 175-84 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013); Ethics, Wonder and Real in Wittgenstein in Y. Gustafsson, C. Kronqvist, H. Nykänen (eds.) Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture: Wittgensteinian Approaches 137-59 (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2013); Dying for a signifier DIVISION/Review, A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum No. 12: 27-8, 2015; and What are Perversions? (London: Karnac, 2016).

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 94-111

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In groppa all’asino, diretti verso l’ignoto

Elena Mignosi and Delia Vaccarello

Elena Mignosi teaches at the University of Palermo.

Delia Vaccarello [1960 – 2019] was an Italian journalist and writer, as well as an activist for LGBT rights. She conducted lectures regarding journalism in Bologna and Urbino, and edited columns in the national periodical press related to anti-discrimination issues. A self-declared lesbian, in 2005, she collaborated on a project in the municipality of Venice for citizen education regarding homophobia. For Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, she curated a multi-volume anthology on love between women.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 112-131

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A note on Lacan’s ‘medievalism’ and its relation to some aspects of animality in Thomas Aquinas

John Gale worked for over 25 years in the field of therapeutic communities specialising in the psychotherapy of the psychoses. He has edited a number of books and published papers in various academic journals. His interests span philosophy, psychoanalysis and spirituality, and the main references in his work include the notions of language, silence, tradition, absence, mysticism, madness, and dwelling. Foremost literary references in his work are to Stoic and Neoplatonic writers and texts from Late Antiquity – including Clement of Alexandria, the Apophthegmata Patrum, Evagrius Ponticus and Augustine – and the work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

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Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 132-146

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MISCELLANEOUS

Fear of strangers; whose home is it?

Roger Kennedy is a Training Analyst and Past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a Child Psychiatrist and was Consultant at the Cassel Hospital for 30 years, and is now Chair of The Child and Family Practice, London. He has written many papers and several books. The most recent books include The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis (London: Routledge, 2007), Couch Tales (London: Routledge, 2009) and The Psychic Home (London: Routledge, 2014).

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 147-166

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La nuda vita dei migranti. Inuovi homines sacri

Cristiana Cimino

Cristiana Cimino is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a Freudian and Lacanian training. She is Full Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA). She is member of Laboratorio dell’Istituto di Studi Filosofici. She has been co-editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a member of the editorial board of Vestigia. She has long worked on the thought of the psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli. She has published several texts on specialized journals, in various languages. She is the author of Il discorso amoroso. Dall’amore della madre al godimento femminile (Rome: Manifestolibri, 2015). She practices in Rome.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 167-170

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Obsession: the desire of Tantalus

Lorenzo Chiesa is a philosopher who has published extensively on psychoanalysis. His works in this field include Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (MIT Press, 2007); Lacan and Philosophy: The New Generation (Re.press, 2014); The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan (MIT Press, 2016); and The Virtual Point of Freedom (Northwestern University Press, 2016). He is Director of the Genoa School of Humanities (GSH) and teaches at the Freud Museum, London. Previously, he was Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent, where he founded and directed the Centre for Critical Thought.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 171-195

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On the truth of logos : Lacan meets Heidegger

Bogdan Wolf is a psychoanalyst and author of two books on Lacan, and a co-editor of the acclaimed collection The Later Lacan (Suny Press, 2007). His third book will be on anxiety and love. He also authored and translated several articles. He is a member of the New Lacanian School.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 196-217

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Haïr pour pouvoir aimer

Mona Chahoury Charabaty

Mona Chahoury Charabaty is a Training Analyst and co-founder of Aldep (Lebanese Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis), the first study group at IPA in the Arab countries. She is a member of IPA and a Maître de conférence at St Joseph University, Beirut. She has worked with abused women and children in Montreal, been an expert witness at tribunals and worked with young people dealing with a chronic disease (diabetes and thalassemia). She is the co-author of a book about how to deal with a chronic disease.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 218-225

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Therapeutic companionship within the chasms of society: the politics of a viable clinical proposal

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Penagos

Juan Manuel Rodriguez Penagos is a psychoanalyst with a PhD in fundamental psychopathology and psychoanalysis from the University of Paris-7 and a Master’s in psychoanalytic theory from CIEP Mexico. He teaches at a number of universities in Mexico and has given conference papers in Mexico, Brazil and France. Juan Manuel is a founding member of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Forum and the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. He is the author of Temporalité et Psychose: une étude de trois cas (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2010) and of many articles.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 226-233

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‘The needle dips and pokes’: Graves, childhood and psychoanalysis

Chris Nicholson

Chris Nicholson is the Head of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. A Senior Lecturer and Course Director for BA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations, Chris has devised two new degrees, BA Therapeutic Care, now in its third year, and BA Childhood Studies – commencing Oct 2018. Chris sits on the Community of Communities Advisory Group for Children and Young People at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and, with a team of colleagues, developed the Core Competency Framework for Therapeutic Communities. Chris also provides training, consultation and supervision to therapeutic services in and the UK, Greece and India. His papers and reviews are published in the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, Psychodynamic Practice and Gravesiana, the Journal of the Robert Graves Society for which he sits on the Editorial Board.

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 234-247

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REVIEWS

Il complesso di Telemaco. Genitori e figli dopo il tramonto del padre.di Massimo Recalcati.
Le mani della madre. Desiderio, fantasmi ed eredità del materno.di Massimo Recalcati.
Il segreto del figlio. Da Edipo al figlio ritrovato.di Massimo Recalcati.

Desirèe Iurilli

Desirèe Iurilli is a social psychologist currently training in systemic family and relationship psychotherapy. She studied criminology at Campus CIELS in Padua and has a Certificate in Tutorship of Learning Processes from Padua University (Bologna Process II Cycle). A member of Jane Austen Society of Italy (JASIT) and former moderator at International Network of Psychoanalytic Practices (INPP).

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Page 248-258

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BULLETIN

Bulletin of Psychoanalytic Studies

Vestigia, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 259-284

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