"Il faudrait cesser d'écrire des romans": the paradoxical influence of the Situationist International on Jean-Patrick Manchette

The goal of this article is to examine the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942–95) as a form of case study that could highlight some of the contradictory effects and emotions that the Situationists provoked in writers of their time. Sincerely influenced by ultra-left politics and Situationist theory, Jean-Patrick Manchette, a crime fiction writer particularly active in the 1970s, was conscious quite early on that his work could be recuperated or that he was himself a recuperator, his novels being "récupérations feuilletonesques du mouvement social". This article summarizes the various aspects of this paradox, which he emphasized himself. It investigates how Manchette tried to develop a theoretically acceptable writing strategy inside this contradiction, a strategy that he would later consider faulty. This article also examines how, regardless of these unresolved preliminary conditions, Manchette experimented with different writing strategies that also bear the trace of political and formal questions sparked by his interest in this political current, thus reacting to it

Origins and rationele of centres for parents and young children together

The range of centres where parents and children come together has mushroomed in different parts of the world, as new social work practices address the emerging non-material needs of parents in changing demographic contexts. In this paper, we explore the origins and modi operandi of these centres in Belgium, France, Italy and Japan. Analysis of previous studies and policy documents reveal diverse political rationales, including addressing declining birth rates, preventing psychosocial problems and social isolation of mothers and promoting social cohesion and equality of educational opportunities. Remarkably, despite the diverse cultural and socio-political contexts and rationales, these centres also share very similar ways of functioning and provide an informal type of social support to parents with young children. As these recently emerged centres are seldom studied, further research is welcomed to explore parents' and professionals' perspectives

Considerações sobre o final de análise

Na comunidade psicanalítica, o tema do final de análise sempre permeou a discussão técnico-teórica. Na Escola Lacaniana, especificamente, esse tema adquiriu especial interesse a partir do momento em que Lacan propôs um novo dispositivo de transmissão, o passe, para que novos analistas testemunhassem sobre a sua passagem à condição de analista. Desde então, diferentes concepções lacanianas sobre o final de análise têm surgido e produzido nova discussão. É nesse contexto que este artigo visa a contribuir com esse debate atual, discutindo diversos aspectos, tais como a eficácia da análise, as vicissitudes da transferência e da pulsão no processo analítico, a re-análise e o dispositivo do passe. Para tanto, parte, inicialmente, das questões levantadas pelo texto freudiano “Análise terminável e interminável” e as discute à luz dos desenvolvimentos teóricos realizados por analistas lacanianos. Após apresentar diferentes concepções sobre o final de análise, o artigo defende que há, nesse processo, um ponto de irredutibilidade, a partir do qual se é convocado a uma produção singular