Psychoanalysis and Culture

Psychoanalysis and Culture

Dr. Peter Widmer

The Joy of Suffering or The Pain of Analysis

Farideh Eisavand

Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

Ethnography of the Subject: Exploring Iranian Inter-subjectivity

Dr. Mehrdad Arabestani

Psychoanalytic reflections

What I learnt from Lacan

Gérard Pommier


Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Translations Constructions in Analysis

Sigmund Freud / Ali Foolādin and Hossein Modjtahedi

Foreword to Persian translation of “Introduction to the Reading of Lacan”

Hasan Makāremi

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan (first Part)

Joël Dor / Mahdi Khuriāniān

Fausse Reconnaissance (déjà raconté) in Psycho-Analytic Treatment

Sigmund Freud / Hadieh Zabihi

Psychoanalysis and Cinema

Cinema and Psychoanalysis: Shared genealogy

Māziār Eslāmi

Parasite as the stench arising from the cleavage of the sewage between intra- and inter-subjectivity

Siāmak Zarifkār

Phalic mother and beautiful boys: A new tale or an old wish?

Shahar Sakhāei

Punctum, Gaze and Panopticon: A discussion on Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games”

Ali Hadāvand

Psychoanalysis and linguistics

The Muqatta’āt and the Other

Mortezā Karbalāeilou

Psychoanalysis and literary criticism

Psychoanalysis and modern Literature

Thomas Anz / Mohammad Mobasheri

A quest for nothing: a psychoanalytic interpretation of Death in the Other’s Bed by Marzieh Ebrāhimi

Salmān Djalāli

Like an association

Ali Pajuhandeh

List of Contributors

Iradj Esmaeilpour Ghouchani

Doctorate in anthropology from University of Munich, Free-lance researcher in the interdisciplinary field of anthropology and psychoanalysis.

Siamak Zarifkar

Lacanian psychoanalyst, social psychology, sociology and political science from University of Honove

Masoud Mehrpour

Neurologist, Faculty of Iran University of Medical Sciences, Chair of Stroke Association.

Hassan Makāremi

Paris-based Lacanian psychoanalyst and researcher at Sorbonne Université.

Mohammad Mobashery

Translator of various psychoanalytical titles from German into Persian such as Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents”, “Five Essays on the Technique of Therapy” (a compilation of Freud’s papers on technique) and “The Wisdom of Life” by Schopenhauer, Dr. Mobashery is also a physician and received his Doctorate degree from Universität Berlin.

Claude-Noël Pickmann

A Paris-based Lacanian psychoanalyst and member of Espace Analytique and Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse, Dr. Pickmann has authored many papers on various psychoanalytical issues, particularly on hysteria.

Farideh Eisāvand

Studied Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the London University, King’s College and the Middlesex University, as well as Center for Freudian Studies in London and was analysed by a Lacanian analyst from New Lacanian School (NLS). She has authored various papers in Persian and English on Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Hādi Rahimi Dānesh

Member of International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and Swedish Psychoanalytical Association (Spaf), Swedish Center for Psychotherapy, Sweden’s Foundation for Group Analysis, Leadership & Organizational Studies. Besides other accomplishments, Dr. Rahimi Dānesh also holds a Ph. D. in psychology.

Hosseinali Nozari

Dr. Nozari earned his Ph. D in political sciences from University of Tehran. Besides being a university professor, he is also a theoretician in political sciences. He has published several titles such as Rereading Habermas, Formulating Modernity and Post-Modernity . He has also translated various titles, among them: Philosophy of history, methodology and historiography, The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge and A third world proletariat?

Gerard Pommier

A Lacanian psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Université Paris 7 , Prof. Pommier is a founding member of Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse (FEP) and member of Espace Analytique and a former protégé of François Dolto and Jacques Lacan.