Editorial Note

We are pleased to announce a significant expansion of our editorial team to better serve our readership. We are deeply grateful to our colleagues who have volunteered to devote some of their time and extraordinary talents to serving our PCS community. This note sets out the additions to our team.

Lamella: Perspectives on psycho-ecological (non)relations

Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, of Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, and Lucas Pohl, of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, will serve as coeditors of this new section. Here is the description that will be published on the PCS website.

Lamella focuses on psycho-ecological critiques, on the relationship between psyche and ecology and its sociopolitical, cultural, and economic implications. We invite original contributions that address this relationship through theoretical, practical, or experienced psychoanalysis. Named after Jacques Lacan’s infamous “myth of the lamella,” the section aims at strengthening the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and the rich realm of life sciences. Lamella is a liminal concept, the thinnest layer that separates a body’s surface from another. This interstitial notion can account for relationships and non-relationships between human beings and other-than-human entities and highlights both its inseparability but also its impossibility. Lamella concerns the subject of the unconscious because it inquires into the insistence of conflicts, excesses, and lacks,

as much as spectral objects that drive the immortal tension of life and death. Lamella is also an aesthetic that questions the experience of the subject and their environment, which can be exuberantly beautiful or ominously morbid.

Stemming from this, Lamella considers psychoanalysis as a “worldly” approach that has an intrinsically social and critical dimension as it helps us understand what makes the world work and, more importantly, what does not work in it. Lamella sets out to become an