Desire Studies

17
Jul
Curiosity, Judgment, Mia Khalifa, & Bella Freud

Curiosity, Judgment, Mia Khalifa, & Bella Freud

Speaking in an episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud, Mia Khalifa says: I think, as I’ve grime older,
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03
Apr

Jouissance v. Desire

The distinction I've been continuing to do work/research for something where I'm going to need
02
Apr

Two Types of Jouissance & Desire

I've been doing some preliminary work and research for a writing project. Part of this work has involved
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15
Jan

Claude.ai's Mistake in Linking Desire with the Imaginary

As I said in my last post, I'm experimenting with talking to Claude.ai and ChatGPT about psychoanalysis.
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06
Feb

QTS-012 | Minimalism & desire

In her post titled Don't make simplicity complicated, Clare Devlin writes: Anything taken to the extreme can be
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10
Jan

Is the Unconscious Real? No!

From Reading A Symptom, by Jacques-Alain Miller. The Unconscious is a Fundamental Hypothesis: The unconscious that lacks Being is represented
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01
Mar

Libido & Desire

Very early in Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan points out: Libido, [which is] a notion that lies at
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28
Dec

Chè voui?

I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this.
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07
Apr

Legible Desires & the Other

OMG. This week is kicking my ass, and I'm super tired. Be that as it may. I'
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05
Apr

Miller on Desire v. Drive

I wrote a bit about this earlier [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/drive-v-instincts-in-psychoanalytic-theory/], and today I'm going to return
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