2024

Considerations of the familial and the social in the formation of childhood subjectivity

Michael O’Loughlin asks if we can imagine pedagogical systems or a therapeutic milieu that would enable children to begin to give an account of themselves, in ways that would allow them to begin to deconstruct the systems of recognizability embedded

Weaving and Unweaving Webs of Gender

Kristin Fiorella examines the way gender exploration can focus and expose ontological anxieties.

Kids Left Behind in Venezuela

Michelle Carpio writes about the migration crisis in Venezuela, highlighting the reality of children being left behind by parents seeking better opportunities abroad.

Hey, leave those kids to dream and play

If children cannot trust the world around them, they have to find ways to preserve their existence, their originality and sensibility, in a world marked by challenges to survival.

Self harming behaviours

Humberto Lorenzo Persano asserts the presently observed increase in the incidence of self-harming behaviours may be related to features of our contemporary world and reveal a deep malaise among young people.

On the Psychoanalytic Anatomy of Conversation

How We Do and Don’t Know What We’re Talking About

Pre Oedipal Freud and the Lost Sibling

Why is the trauma of sibling loss in early childhood so neglected?