The LifeStraw

LifeStraw device offers relief from the waterborne diseases of major public concerns such as Typhoid, Cholera, Dysentery and Diarrhoea. As a personal mobile water purification tool, LifeStraw is designed to turn surface water into drinking water, thus providing access to safe water anywhere on the world. [The LifeStraw and more]

The Mercury Theatre on the Air

The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its […]

Jean-Michel Vappereau — La métaphore du nom-du-père comme envers du Narcissisme: involution entre les formules de la sexuations et les tours du dire au dit dans l’Étourdit

Paper produced by Vappereau in Balvanera, 29 May 2004. This work is the final installment in a larger body called “L’involution signifiante,” and deals with the signifying involution, the nom-du-père, and the formulas of sexuation of Lacan using constructive mathematics and the Borromean knot. L_envers_du_narcissisme [Added: 2025/08/24]

The semantic field of jouissance in Lacanian discourse

Jouissance is a term marked by its polysemy in its uses in French. Here I will detail in an incomplete way, partial and partial semantic fields in which Lacan uses this term. I will note two points in the preamble. First of all the use made of it in law. The enjoyment of property makes no assumption on […]