My Transference with Lacan as a Thinker
“I confess that I am quite dissatisfied – apart from a few exceptions – with philosophies that fully take up…
Sergio Benvenuto
“Syria”
A quick overview of my understanding of events in Syria. Clear winners: the array of radical Sunni groups in Syria…
Italy, 1953: A Sexual Political Delusion
“How the ‘True World’ finally became a fiction” F. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols 1. The less credible a fiction…
Italy and Psychoanalysis
Number 5 – “Spring-Fall 1997”
Merleau-Ponty and Hallucination
Published in American Imago, vol. 72, Summer 2015/2, pp. 177-196. I. Not Constructing, But Living I offer here a rereading…
A Fundamental Contradiction of the Western Camp
Today many accuse Western leaderships of having been blind with regard to Putin, of not having realised his aims far…
Why Paint Your Face Blue? Two or Three Ways to Love Godard
“All you need to make a movie is a gun and a woman.” Note, May 16, 1991. I belong to…
“A Street Car Named Love”. The checkmate of “as if” personalities
” Of the partner, love can only accomplish what I called with a kind of poetry, to make myself understood,…
Sublimation and Compassion
SummaryThe concept of sublimation in Freud is examined here as a corollary of the metaphysics underlying the bulk of his works: the…
Introduction to the Brazilian translation of: P. Feyerabend, Ambiguità e armonia. Lezioni trentine (Ambiguity and Harmony. Trento Lectures)*. Edited by Francesca Castellani (Laterza, 1996)
RApèndice 1, “Ricordi su Feyerabend”, Paul K. Feyerabend, Ciência, um Monstro. Lições trentinas, “A memory of my personal encounters with P.K. Feyerabend”. In…