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R. Loose, The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and the Administration of Enjoyment, (Reviewed by Gabriela van den Hoven)
Rik Loose's book The Subject of Addiction is an event. It is a thorough examination of texts, from Freud's pre-analytical period to the latest developments of Lacan and the Lacanians. In this book Loose proposes a logical development about the place of addiction in the modern world. (click here to read more)
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J. Glynos, & Y. Stavrakakis (eds). Lacan & Science, (Reviewed by Tony Chadwick).
This collection of eleven essays on the broad subject of Lacan and science is overdue, and this in more than one sense. As the editors explain in their “Acknowledgements”, almost four years separate the original idea of the collection from its publication in 2002, so that if the publication is as timely as ever, it is in large part due to the ever-present need, particularly for readers who can access only texts in English, to re-evaluate the position of psychoanalysis vis-à-vis science. (click here to read more)
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Darian Leader, Stealing the Mona Lisa, (Reviewed by Simon Morris)
Books on paintings are two-a-penny, so that a book on the absence of a painting is unusual and maybe closer than the rest to the point of art. Artists are, after all, fascinated by the void, the big NOTHING, as recent exhibitions on the subject testify There is a lot of something in an exhibition on nothing, there is a lot written about nothing and many people will travel the distance, make the journey to view nothing. As John Cage so clearly observed in his work Silence: `Every something is an echo of nothing'. So Darian Leader is prescient to examine the space left by the missing painting. His book starts with the theft of the world's most famous painting by a housepainter in 1911. (click here to read more)
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