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I've been doing some preliminary work and research for a writing project. Part of this work has involved trying to formalize and articulate the distinctions between., Other jouissance, phallic jouissance, and desire. Here is a working hypothesis: * Desire is how the subject relates to what is lost through

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week. Freud has been variously paraphrased as saying that psychoanalysis could treat neurotic misery, but that it could not treat ordinary human unhappiness. [...] This is a phrase of terrible realism and pessimism,

1. Freud starts by saying something clearly. Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic symptoms, inhibitions, and abnormalities of character— is a time-consuming business. I notice he says "psycho-analytic therapy" and not just psychoanalysis. That's interesting. Perhaps Freud does not