Alfredo Coviello

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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

¿Dónde están las lesbianas en el siglo XIX? Este flash ensayo forma parte del celebrado libro Señoras que se empotraron hace mucho, en el que se presenta a mujeres que, de un modo u otro, desafiaron las convenciones sociales a través de expresar abiertamente su sexualidad. En este caso, hallamos una selección de algunas de las señoras que amaron a otras mujeres en el siglo XIX, entre las cuales podríamos destacar a Anne Lister y sus diarios codificados, a la actriz Charlotte Cushman o a la anarquista Marie Equi, que luchó por los derechos de obreros, mujeres y el colectivo LGTBQ....

Analytic practice confronts the whole body of psychoanalytic theory because it is not limited to a mere clinical experience. As the unconscious, it elicits a particular response from the analyst. This collection of essays is divided into four sections: Transference and Interpretation; Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Analyst Training; and Lacanian Clinic.