David Macey, 1949-2011: Biographer of the French intellectual Left

Neil Belton and Peter Osborne ~ RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012), pp. 57–60 ~ Obituary

David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intensely private person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer outside […]

Who was Oscar Masotta?: Psychoanalysis in Argentina

Philip Derbyshire ~ RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009), pp. 11–24 ~ Article

Who was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysis in Argentina Philip derbyshire As Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s sardonic detective Pepe Carvalho ruefully observed, in a dictionary of Argentine clichés, psychoanalysis would have a crucial place, along with ‘tango and the disappeared’. [1] ‘One’ knows that along with Paris, Buenos Aires is one of the centres of psychoanalytic practice, and […]