... pas-tout, ça veut dire que lorsqu'un être parlant quelconque se range sous la bannière des femmes c'est à partir de ceci qu'il se fonde de n'être pas-tout, à se placer dans la fonction phallique. C'est ça qui définit la... la quoi? - la femme justement, à ceci près que La femme, ça ne peut s'écrire qu'à barrer La. Il n'y a pas La femme, article défini pour désigner l'universel. Il n'y a pas La femme puisque - j'ai déjà risqué le terme, et pourquoi y regarderais-je à deux fois? - de son essensce, elle n'est pas toute.
Jacques Lacan, Encore, chapitre vi, 3 (Seuil).
pas tout welcomes submissions
This journal is a space for writing at the crossroads of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and cultural critique. We are not interested in academic exhaustiveness or journalistic reporting. We imagine the journal as a site of experiment and rigor and are looking for texts that take risks — texts that think with form, that move with a cut. What we seek is writing that interrupts, unsettles, insists.
We want short essays, interviews and other forms that operate as interventions: flashes of critique, close readings, or encounters with an artwork. The essay may circle around a poem, a film, or a piece of music; it may read culture symptomatically, catching where enjoyment erupts; it may linger on a single word or image. What matters is that the writing stays faithful to the psychoanalytic orientation, with Lacan as a continual point of reference, even if this reference may be as subtle as an analytical intervention can be.
We seek writing that treats form as essential, not ornamental. Writing that does not settle into the territory of academic discourse or cultural commentary, but instead marks a displacement, a break, a crossing of borders — writing that comes from the outside.
~ 5 pages (2.000-3.000 words)
Languages: English, German, French
Please send submissions or questions to info@pas-tout.com.
about pas tout
(est. 2025)
Sophia Léonard has an academic background in philology and cultural studies with a Ph.D. thesis from Cornell University exploring the experimentation with the limits of representability in image and language in biographical drama and how it relates to the relation between individual subjectivity and collective history. Publication, editing and translation in the field of cultural studies and contemporary poetry. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Berlin. E-Mail
Søren Larsen is a writer and theorist with strong interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and aesthetics. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, focusing on Paul Celan, lyric subjectivity and the difficult politics of universal. He has published mostly in the field of psychoanalysis as a tool for cultural critique, with a focus on aesthetic form and the operations of enjoyment in language. He lives in Copenhagen. E-Mail