Much of the great rural to urban migrations which have produced the shanty towns and ghetto complexes in the regions of the 'undeveloped' South have occurred, in the main, over the past thirty years and are related to capital interests working their way through the international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank etc) to effect domestic policy changes conducive to their own interests. There is nothing inherently wrong with this if you subscribe to the notion that open borders and a liberalized...

In her essay on the psychoanalytic use of topological structures Nathalie Charraud writes;

'For Lacan, the structure of the subject of the unconscious as subject of the signifier is, in fact, the Mobius strip; a surface of inscription where front and back are but one continuous side. It is this structure that offers a solution to the problem of double inscription that so vexed Freud''.

The essential properties of the Mobius strip that help us understand the Lacanian structuralist...

The unconscious has a timeless, pulsatile function and if you were to ask what is a prevailing cause of crisis in this troubled region I would say it is the Israeli mind itself - a mind which needs to be expunged of its darknesses.

For the entire process of Holocaust remembrance, of continually revisiting the events both in their public and private lives has obviously had an incalculably strong - and deleterious impact. There are painful, recurring modes of renewing this compact with...

If anything identifies Freud as an innovative thinker it is his claim that there is an 'unconscious' mind which importantly can be observed and understood using scientific methods - of which, more later. Many other thinkers such as William James had already used the term but had made only passing reference to it - in discussions of sleepwalking, hypnotic suggestion and so on - as though it were one of those inscrutable facts of nature, which, whilst an interesting and fundamental component of the...

We may well ask whether World War III began on 9/11 and further inquire whether the cost of sustaining this war has led to the collapse of the international banking system and subsequent global recession. Let’s not get too hung up on definitions; the Seven Years War was not called a “World War” though it was global in reach and had all the necessary geo-political dimensions and the First World War was only referred to as such after the dust had settled. What we are looking for in adumbrating the...