Descartes

” It was at the same time of an adventurous and prompt nature to fold up itself “
Discussion with Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, by François EwaldLiterary magazine n° 342April 1996
” I thus doubt I exist ; or what is the same thing : I think, therefore I exist. “Descartes
Genevieve Rodis-Lewis devoted her life to Descartes. Its work [...]

Ulysses, from one exile to another

By Helene MonsacréLiterary magazine n° 221Juillet/Août 1985 (File literature and the exile).
“Oh! not, nothing is softer than fatherland and parents; in the exile, what good is the richest residence, among foreigners and far from its parents?”Ulysses in.
It is at the time when Ulysses has just declined his identity in Phéaciens, and before even beginning the [...]

The white Review with the magnifying glass

By Jean-Baptist BaronianThe Literary Magazine n°468October 2007
In addition to Alfred Jarry and Octave Mirbeau, the white Review accomodated talented writers, aujourd’hui forgotten.
Jarry and Octave Mirbeau, the white Review accomodated talented writers, aujourd’hui forgotten.
“Center of rallying of all the divergences” according to the formula d’André Gide, the white Review regularly makes l’objet, these last decades, d’études [...]

Kafka Pragois

By Jean Montalbetti
Literary magazine n° 198September 1983
1983. Whole Europe celebrates the centenary of Kafka. In Paris, a conference is devoted to him to the Sorbonne. But Prague, city whose Kafka is indissociable, continuous to regard it as a declining author, of which proscire is needed work and the memory.
“It seemed to to me that the [...]

In margin of " Zone "

By Lionel Richard
Literary magazine n° 348November 1996
The new esthetics, which Apollinaire in “the preliminary Alcohol” poem proposes , aims at gathering and with exalter the heteroclite one. When poetry accepts chaos and the chance.
” Love you do not know what it is only the absenceAnd you do not know that one smells oneself some [...]

The Literary Magazine October 2007: Great quarrels between philosophers

Benefits of the controversyBy Jean-Louis Hoots
L’art of the polemic goes up with highest Antiquity “Polemos [ the conflict ] is the father of all things and the king of all things”, affirmed Héraclite. All l’histoire of Greek philosophy can be summarized with a succession of arguments. Oscillating between theoretical debates and personal attacks, refutation and [...]

Emmanuel Lévinas: the concern of the other

By Alain FinkielkrautLiterary magazine n° 345July-August 1996
“Nothing, in a sense, is more cumbersome only the next one. This desired isn’t it the undesirable one even?”Emmanuel Lévinas
“It is necessary to cease, known as Plato in the Sophist, to tell intrigues.” Thus philosophy starts, thus continues it until Heidegger which reiterates in Being and time the inaugural [...]

Great love of Honore de Balzac

By Hubert Junein literary magazine n° 120January 1977
It is to Mrs Hanska that Balzac very entrusted. The “Letters” which were restored to us, in 1976, by Roger Pierrot form most invaluable of the comments to “the human Comedy”
What there is astonishing of and applicant in the world by the library, it is that the authors [...]

Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy

Jacques-Alain Millertranslated by Barbara P. Fulks
I. THE PSYCHOANALYSIS/PSYCHOTHEREAPY DISTINCTION
Shouldn’t I lift the burden I’ve placed on your shoulders – and on my own? I have in fact placed on us the weight of an insistent return, that of the difference between pure and applied psychoanalysis – applied, I should add, to therapy.
1. A RETURN
ENUNCIATION OF [...]

Objects a in the analytic experience

by Jacques-Alain Miller
I am going to bring an end to the secret: the title of the next Congress of the WAP. I will bring this to an end with the indulgence of the Delegate General. After the “Name-of-the-Father,” it will be “The objects a in the analytic experience.” From One (the Name-ofthe-Father) to others (the [...]