05/03/2026

Lucas Ferraço Nassif at the Congreso Internacional Sobre Psicoanálisis y Arte

Our post-doctoral fellow, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, will be present at the Congreso Internacional Sobre Psicoanálisis y Arte: Al Encontro de lo Real, on March 17-20, at the Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

His presentation is titled "Contemporary Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Shimmering Unconscious and Death-Images".

ABSTRACT How do moving images and sounds operate analyses of the unconscious in nonmetonymical relations to the Other? Why is neurosis the wallpaper of psychoanalytic practices? Why must words mean something, represent a feeling, or go back to an origin story that is usually understood in familistic bonds? This presentation will put forth a new conceptualization for the Diagram of Saussure, used by Jacques Lacan in Seminar III: Psychoses when elaborating on the point de capiton. With the critiques produced by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, we propose a different reading of Lacan’s lesson, concerned with a contemporary screen-based media undertaking of the clinic and the theory of the unconscious. We will underscore both the contemporary psychoanalytic practice and theory influenced by the nonrepresentational  counterpoints brought by schizoanalysis, enabling new grasps on libidinal productions. For that, we will introduce a new concept that is the death-image. Death-images are crises: the entropic agency of the shimmering unconscious that works with immanent refractions instead of transcendent reflections. They are images of confusion where the modeling forces of narcissism run with the literality of the imaginary short-circuited to the real, bypassing the symbolic. Our objects of study will be screen-based media narratives that highlight both the haptic and shimmering predicates of moving images and sounds. In relation to the graphic productions of the body, these objects of study are not understood as illustrations or as representations: they are active producers of thought in a machinic ecology. Via refractions instead of reflections, the shimmering unconscious actively creates new virtualities for both new universes of reference and new forms of expression to emerge. These are new existential territories. In technological vitalism, entangling the organic with the inorganic, the body conducts machinic assemblages to express and exist beyond the dialectics of Hegelian transcendent interactions between S1 and S2. The shimmering unconscious refracts with no temporal origin story; it is not the transcendent embodiment of meaning-making framed by the verbal Other. It is an intense semiotic multiplicity.

More information on the event available here.

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07/08/2026

“Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films” is out now!

We are pleased to announce the completion of the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”, guest edited by Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas for Arts. The Special Issue brings together seven original articles examining testament films from a philosophical perspective. Rather than approaching filmmakers’ final works merely as […]
06/08/2026

New Open Access publication by Susana Viegas

We are pleased to share that the book chapter “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief” by PI Susana Viegas is now available in Open Access through the publisher Brill. Published in “Derrida and Film Studies”, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025), the chapter explores Jacques Derrida’s reflections on cinema […]
06/08/2026

Join us at the Goethe-Institut Portugal for the cycle “Falar sobre a morte (nunca matou ninguém)”!

Organized by the Goethe-Institut Portugal, with contributions from the FILM AND DEATH team, Death Café, the association Doulas do Fim da Vida, and many other partners, the festival Falar sobre a morte (nunca matou ninguém) [Speaking About Death (Never Killed Anyone)] will open on September 17 at 5:00 pm with the interactive sound installation Memorial […]
03/08/2026

Join Anderson Santos and Lucas Ferraço Nassif at the Centro Português de Psicanálise

On September 1, 7:00 PM, the Centro Português de Psicanálise (R. da Assunção 7, 2º) will host a talk by Anderson Santos, moderated by Lucas Ferraço Nassif, on “Félix Guattari: Psicanálise e o Paradigma Ético-Estético”. This presentation will be in Portuguese. This presentation addresses the shift initiated by Félix Guattari within psychoanalysis, as he proposes […]
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