David Sahyoun, 30/07 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Female Body Fantasy Image
In today’s world, the female body is under constant pressure. It must be smooth, toned, youthful, desirable but not vulgar, slim but not unhealthy, maternal yet flawless. On social media, in advertising and in television shows, a single ideal takes hold: a body that is controlled, edited and put on display. The ideal is now algorithmic. It is ...
David Sahyoun, 23/07 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Female Body Psychoanalysis Object Subject Fantasy Desire
The female body is never simply a body. It carries myth and memory. It feeds both fantasy and repression. It often appears where it is least expected, slips through language, escapes definition and resists categorization. From cave paintings to fashion runways, from fairy tales to biology textbooks, the female body has been spoken about, ...
David Sahyoun, 16/07 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Self-Harm Psychoanalysis Body Scars Sufferings
Once treated as a fringe concern in psychiatry, self-harm has become far more visible in recent decades. Clinical and epidemiological studies agree that it primarily affects adolescents and young adults, with a marked prevalence among girls and young women. It appears in hospitals, schools and prisons, but also across digital spaces. On platforms ...
David Sahyoun, 09/07 18:00 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Impostor Imposture Falsehood Psychoanalysis Role
“The real impostor doesn’t just lie to others—he creates himself. And sometimes, he even believes it.” — Jean-Bertrand Pontalis. The figure of the impostor is disorienting, and at times even fascinating. They invent a life, borrow an identity, adopt qualities they do not possess and assume a role never truly theirs. Yet, behind the ...
David Sahyoun, 02/07 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Will Way Myth Unconscious
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way” – most of us have grown up hearing it, whether at home, in school, or later in the workplace. It’s become so familiar that we rarely question it, repeating it like a modern mantra. But beneath its motivational appeal lies one of the more damaging myths of our time. It implies that sheer willpower ...
David Sahyoun, 25/06 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel War Iran Psychoanalysis Desire
“The master’s discourse is one that refuses to acknowledge its unconscious.” – Jacques Lacan The war we are witnessing today is fought as much through scorched landscapes as through language. What is unfolding between Iran and Israel is not simply a military or geopolitical confrontation – it is a war of discourse. Each side constructs ...
David Sahyoun, 18/06 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Tik Tok Psychoanalysis Anorexia Silent Scream SkinnyTok
Beneath TikTok’s dance videos and colorful filters lies a darker reality, a world where adolescents are drawn into a dangerous ideal. Under the hashtag #SkinnyTok, anorexia is not just present, it is glorified. The app gives young people the tools to expose themselves, compare and become captivated by an ideal of thinness that has quietly become ...
David Sahyoun, 11/06 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Palliative Care Death Assisted Dying France
In France, the debate over palliative care and assisted dying challenges the very foundations of how we relate to life and death, to pain and, more profoundly, to the dignity of the human subject. What does it truly mean to die? Is it simply the end of life, or the loss of one’s voice, one’s place within social bonds and the capacity for ...
David Sahyoun, 04/06 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Addictions Therapy Culture
The underlying logic of “mindset therapy” is the reinforcement of the self. It urges individuals to push their limits, reinvent themselves, “raise their vibration” – as if the essence of psychic life were a relentless pursuit of performance. But for Freud and Lacan, desire is never aligned or resolved. It remains blocked, unstable, ...
David Sahyoun, 28/05 14:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Emmanuel Macron Slap Brigitte Macron Vietnam
Certain gestures exceed their expected boundaries and unsettle the scene in which they occur. Brigitte Macron’s gesture, filmed as she stepped off a plane in Hanoi on May 25, is a striking example. This fleeting moment—interpreted alternately as a slap or a simple sign of complicity—ignited a torrent of interpretations. Beyond ...
David Sahyoun, 21/05 18:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Addictions Mind Therapy Culture
Excessive screen use often results in compulsive patterns, where individuals struggle to cut back despite being fully aware of the negative consequences. Today, the screen has become a space of projection—a mirror reflecting our solitude, a portal to fantasy and an endless source of stimulation. It is no longer just a tool, it’s embedded in ...
David Sahyoun, 14/05 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Exist Creativity Self-Affirmation Culture
For philosopher Jean Baudrillard, consumption is far more than an economic act – it is a system of communication and social control. We don’t consume merely to meet our needs; we consume to be like others, to belong to the collective. Behind the apparent abundance of choice hides an insidious conformity: you need to have this object to be ...