{"id":320,"date":"2017-09-25T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=320"},"modified":"2023-12-06T02:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:26:21","slug":"jaigu-there-is-no-clowning-about-it","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/portfolio-items\/jaigu-there-is-no-clowning-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"JAIGU | There is no clowning about it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-modal modal fade modal-1 francejaigu\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-labelledby=\"modal-heading-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"--awb-border-color:#ebebeb;--awb-background:#f6f6f6;\"><div class=\"modal-dialog modal-lg\" role=\"document\"><div class=\"modal-content fusion-modal-content\"><div class=\"modal-header\"><button class=\"close\" type=\"button\" data-dismiss=\"modal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-label=\"Close\">&times;<\/button><h3 class=\"modal-title\" id=\"modal-heading-1\" data-dismiss=\"modal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">France Jaigu<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"modal-body fusion-clearfix\">\n<p>Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre \u2013 \u00c9cole de la Cause Freudienne. World Association of Psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<p>jaigu@club-internet.fr<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:25;--minFontSize:25;line-height:1.5;\">There is no clowning about it!<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-flex-column 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);\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><style type='text\/css'>.reading-box-container-2 .element-bottomshadow:before,.reading-box-container-2 .element-bottomshadow:after{opacity:0.7;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-2\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#333333;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:84px;\"><div class=\"reading-box\" style=\"background-color:#ecf0f5;border-width:1px;border-color:#ecf0f5;border-style:solid;\"><h2>Abstract<\/h2><div class=\"reading-box-additional fusion-reading-box-additional\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The compelling nature and effectiveness of clowns and their heavily made-up faces could thus be traced back \u2014among others\u2014 to the very early experiences of childhood, experiences that have left memories of satisfaction and laughter tinged with the knowledge that something else is going on beneath the smiles, the caring and the love. Beyond the mask of motherhood lurks a desire that cannot be overlooked, the unknown desire of an Other that causes anxiety in the subject who is confronted with it. Clowns \u2014albeit perfectly friendly ones\u2014 thus always carry about them a feeling of the uncanny that Freud described in his work.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"fusion-dropcap dropcap dropcap-boxed\" style=\"--awb-border-radius:8px;--awb-background:#dd3333;\">H<\/span>as it not been for Donald Trump\u2019s election to the presidency, 2016 could almost have gone down in American history as the year of the clown. Clown sightings started in August in South Carolina when a young boy claimed he had met two clowns that had attempted to lure him into the woods near his home. But soon, the sightings seemed to be happening everywhere and were reported in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Ireland, the UK, Spain,), Mexico, South America (Chile, Brazil), Australia and Singapore, prompting people to go on the look out for clowns loitering in incongruous settings. Many of these clown sightings were actually videotaped and are available to see on the internet. Some sites even go so far as rank the sightings, offering the viewer a supposedly chilling countdown leading up to the \u201cscariest clown sighting\u201d[1]. But despite notable efforts on the part of the narrator who puts on an appropriately journalistic tone, presumably in an attempt to build up to a climax, all the viewer gets is a series of images of overweight, badly dressed clowns painfully chasing a bunch of people who \u2013conversely- are safely driving away in their cars: \u201cOMG, WTF!!!\u201d they holler, but their fear remains unconvincing to say the least.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">2016 \u2013and this is no coincidence- is also the year Stephen King\u2019s famous novel\u00a0<em>It\u00a0<\/em>was adapted on screen for the second time[2]\u00a0(a previous TV version was shot in 1990). The novel starts off with young George Denbrough aged 6 chasing the boat his elder brother William made out of a newspaper sheet down \u201ca gutter swollen with rain\u201d. Eventually, the boat goes down a stormdrain and little George peers in only to discover that a clown is down the drain. The clown calls out to Georgie in a pleasant clownish voice and introduces itself as Pennywise the dancing clown. Pennywise offers Georgie his boat back and throws in a balloon. But when Georgie reaches in the drain, the clown holds the child\u2019s arm in \u201ca thick and wormy grip\u201d\u2026 King goes on to describe Georgie\u2019s demise:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\">it pulled George toward that terrible darkness where the water rushed and roared and bellowed as it bore its cargo of storm debris toward the sea. George craned his neck away from that final blackness and began to scream into the rain, to scream mindlessly into the white autumn sky which curved above Derry on that day in the fall of 1957. His screams were shrill and piercing, and all up and down Witcham Street people came to their windows or bolted out onto their porches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\">\u2018They\u00a0<em>float<\/em>,\u2019 it growled, \u2018they\u00a0<em>float<\/em>, Georgie, and when you\u2019re down here with me, you\u2019ll float too-\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\">George\u2019s shoulder socked against the cement of the curb and Dave Gardener, who had stayed home from his job at The Shoeboat that day because of the flood, saw only a small boy who was screaming and writhing in the gutter with muddy water surfing over his face and making his screams sound bubbly. (King, 2016)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There is no mistaking the shabby-looking clowns of last year\u2019s sightings for King\u2019s Pennywise who could be a cross between a psychopath\u00a0<em>\u00e0 la\u00a0<\/em>John Wayne Gacy (a serial killer and former clown responsible for murdering at least 33 teenagers and young males in Illinois back in the 1970s) and something even darker still. Right from the start of the novel, the horror is set against the backdrop of childhood wonder which King captures perfectly, effectively increasing the tension. In the few pages devoted to him -in a novel which totals over a thousand-, George Denbrough hints at what is truly disturbing with clowns: at first, upon seeing Pennywise\u2019s gleaming eyes down the stormdrain, George believes he is in the presence of an animal. Only when Pennywise calls out his name does George see the clown\u2019s face looming out of the dark:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\">There was a clown in the stormdrain. The light in there was far from good, but it was good enough so that George Denbrough was sure of what he was seeing. It was a clown, like in the circus or on TV. In fact he looked like a cross between Bozo and Clarabell, who talked by honking his (or what it her? \u2013George was never really sure of the gender) horn on\u00a0<em>Howdy Doody\u00a0<\/em>Saturday mornings\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Who\/what is Pennywise, the creature only children can see? Who\/what is there hiding behind the white face and the big clown-smile painted over the creature\u2019s mouth? Is it a he? A she? An it? Or, worse still, could it be that nothing lies beneath the mask?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It seems indeed that clowns are far more ambiguous creatures than we like to think; the figure of the clown hidden beneath layers of makeup both conjures up the familiar and the uncanny. On the one hand, we have the kindly clown that hands out candy, gives away balloons, makes funny faces, tells jokes and causes children to laugh out loud. A clown that draws on first experiences, those that take place before a child can speak or even make out his mother\u2019s features, when he only perceives a shape peering over his crib.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In\u00a0<em>Seminar 5,<\/em>\u00a0on April 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a01958, Lacan evoked the form of communication that occurs during this very early childhood. The first true form of communication that takes place between the child and his mother is laughter. Anyone who has observed a child in its first few months will agree, said Lacan, children laugh way before they can speak. And this laughter has to do with what lies beyond the mere presence of the mother standing before the child insofar as the child knows that the presence can bring satisfaction. This familiar presence that the child knows is capable of satisfying his needs is \u201ccalled upon, perceived, recognized\u201d before the child can speak, in the very special code made up of his first bouts of laughter\u201d[3].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In this particular case, what lies beneath the featureless mask of the mother is thus satisfaction. An altogether different experience awaits the child further along the line when he discovers that beyond the caring mother he knows, lies a woman who desires elsewhere. A woman that was hidden behind the mask of motherhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In one of Robert Altman\u2019s 1993 masterpiece\u00a0<em>Short Cuts<\/em>\u2019s closing scenes, Marian and Ralph Wyman have invited Claire and Stuart for dinner. Claire works as a party clown for children and spends most of the film driving around Los Angeles in her car wearing her disguise. Both couples are quite drunk at the end of the meal and Claire offers to apply clown make-up on their faces. She coaxes her husband Stuart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Claire<\/em>: \u2014 Come on Stuart: it\u2019s only me underneath you know, I can change but I can always go back to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Ralph<\/em>: \u2014 Marian? What do you have underneath?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Marian<\/em>: \u2014 You know Ralph, nothing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Claire<\/em>\u00a0(to Ralph): \u2014 Who do you wanna be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Ralph<\/em>: \u2014 I wanna be nothing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Claire<\/em>: \u2014 Well I know how to do nothing, we\u2019ll just erase your face!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The sexual innuendo between Marian and Ralph refers to the fact that Marian is not wearing panties underneath her skirt. This fact was made painfully clear to Ralph before the guests arrived in a conversation with Marian in which he confronted her about a fling he believes she had with a colleague a few years back. But the clown-scene, despite the apparent cheerful drunkenness, sends the viewer to a deeper level that concerns female sexuality: how can femininity be defined? What is there beyond the well-known \u201cwomanliness as masquerade\u201d described by British psychoanalyst Joan Riviere in 1929?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Riviere\u2019s case concerns a patient belonging to a type of women described by Ernest Jones in 1927[4]\u00a0\u201cwho wish for \u201crecognition\u201d of their masculinity from men and claim to be the equals of men, or in other words, to be men themselves\u00a0\u00bb. The patient\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0resentment, however, (is) not openly expressed; publicly she acknowledge(s) her condition of womanhood\u00a0\u00bb. Beneath the apparent womanliness therefore lies a strong masculine identification that cannot be shaken, a man beneath the mask of femininity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Riviere\u2019s patient is thus like a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing. Protecting her masculinity under the veil of femininity. But if femininity can \u201cbe assumed and worn as a mask\u00a0\u00bb, if no line is to be drawn \u00ab\u00a0between genuine womanliness and the \u2018masquerade\u2019\u00a0\u00bb as Riviere concludes, then Marian\u2019s witticism pretty much hits the nail on the head: a he beneath the she\u2026 or nothing at all?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The compelling nature and effectiveness of clowns and their heavily made-up faces could thus be traced back \u2014among others\u2014 to the very early experiences of childhood, experiences that have left memories of satisfaction and laughter tinged with the knowledge that something else is going on beneath the smiles, the caring and the love. Beyond the mask of motherhood lurks a desire that cannot be overlooked[5], the unknown desire of an Other that causes anxiety in the subject who is confronted with it. Clowns \u2014albeit perfectly friendly ones\u2014 thus always carry about them a feeling of the uncanny, \u00ab something which is secretly familiar [heimlich-heimisch], which has undergone repression and then returned from it\u00a0\u00bb to quote Freud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And sure enough, to put it in the words of Alan Daub (professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University), Stephen King\u2019s\u00a0<em>It\u00a0<\/em>\u201cdwells on the horror of having lived with something terrifying all along, of having become blind and numb to it\u201d. The town of Derry, Maine, where the events take place is clouded in amnesia. \u201cAll discovery in this book is rediscovery\u201d. Child abuse, racism, cruel and uncaring mothers are but a few of the evils that pervade the novel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0last year, as the clown-sightings were threatening to go viral, Stephen King attempted to \u201ccool the clown hysteria\u201d: \u201cmost of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh\u201d he wrote on his twitter account. Most of em indeed\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:30;line-height:1.4;\"><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p style=\"text-align: justify\">[1]\u00a0And, aptly enough, Lacan, will go on in\u00a0<em>Seminar 5<\/em>\u00a0to describe the symptom as the mask of desire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[2]\u00a0\u00abThe Top 15 scariest clown sightings\u00a0\u00bb are available on\u00a0Youtube.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[3]\u00a0The film, directed by Andr\u00e9s Muschietti, is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 8th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[4]\u00a0\u00abLa pr\u00e9sence famili\u00e8re, celle dont il a l\u2019habitude, et dont il a la connaissance qu\u2019elle peut satisfaire \u00e0 ses d\u00e9sirs dans leur diversit\u00e9, est appel\u00e9e, appr\u00e9hend\u00e9e, reconnue dans ce code si sp\u00e9cial que constituent chez l\u2019enfant avant la parole ses premiers rires devant certaines des pr\u00e9sences qui le soignent, le nourrissent, et lui r\u00e9pondent\u00a0\u00bb, in\u00a0<em>Le S\u00e9minaire livre V, Les formations de l\u2019inconscient,\u00a0<\/em>Paris, Seuil, 1998, p. 331.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[5]\u00a0I am referring to<em>\u00a0The Early Development of Female Sexuality,<\/em>\u00a0the paper Jones gave in September 1927 at the Xth I. P. A. Congress held at Innsbruck.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-5 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:30px;--awb-sep-color:#dd3333;\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:20;--minFontSize:20;line-height:1.5;\">References<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><ul style=\"--awb-size:15px;--awb-iconcolor:#dd3333;--awb-line-height:25.5px;--awb-icon-width:25.5px;--awb-icon-height:25.5px;--awb-icon-margin:10.5px;--awb-content-margin:36px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-1 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A.A [Chills] (6 de octubre de 2016) Top 15 Scariest Clown Sightings Videos [Archivo de video] Recuperado de\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Il_KGsw2miI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Daub, A. (16 de septiembre de 2016) \u201cWhere \u201cIt\u201d Was: Rereading Stephen King\u2019s \u201cIt\u201d on Its 30th Anniversary\u201d. Los \u00c1ngeles Review of Books. Disponible en\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/where-it-was-rereading-stephen-kings-it-on-its-30th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Freud, S. (1919 [2010]. \u201cLo ominoso\u201d.\u00a0<em>Obras completas. Tomo XII.<\/em>\u00a0Buenos Aires: Amorrortu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jones, E. (1927) \u201cThe early development of female sexuality\u201d.\u00a0<em>The international journal of psycho-analysis<\/em>. Volumen III. Part. 4. University at Buffalo Libraries, Buffalo: p.p 459-472<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lacan, J. (1957-1958 [2010]) \u201cLas Formaciones del Inconsciente\u201d en\u00a0<em>El seminario de Jacques Lacan. Libro 5.\u00a0<\/em>Buenos Aires: Paid\u00f3s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">King, S. (2016)\u00a0<em>It<\/em>. Nueva York: Scribner. Disponible\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/It\/Stephen-King\/9781501141232\/browse_inside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">King, S. (3 de octubre de 2016) \u201cHey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria\u2013most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh\u201d. Disponible\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenking\/status\/783018957263568896?lang=es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rivi\u00e8re, J. (2007). \u201cLa femineidad como m\u00e1scara\u201d. (Traducci\u00f3n de Vel\u00e1squez, A. y Ponce de Le\u00f3n, M.\u00a0<em>Athenea Digital<\/em>, n\u00famero 11. p.p: 219-226. Disponible\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/psicologiasocial.uab.es\/athenea\/index.php\/atheneaDigital\/article\/view\/374\/335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-6 fusion-flex-container fusion-parallax-fixed nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:10px;--awb-background-image:url(&quot;http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Portada-Lapso-2.jpg&quot;);--awb-background-size:cover;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;background-attachment:fixed;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-10 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/320\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matpsil.com\/revista-lapso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}