Lucian Freud

Can Freud be abandoned? Interrelations between sacer, ambivalence, exception, suspension, property, use and civil war around the origin of law are traces of Freud that manifest the...

This essay does two things. First, it gives an account of the development of Freud’s thought in human psychology from its beginnings in the studies of psychoneurosis he undertook j...

This chapter turns to the treatment of gout and its symptoms in Plutarch and Lucian. Plutarch uses the figure of Philoktetes to help explain and justify his model of a body that is...