Freud Studies

10
Sep

Lacan as rhetorician

From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément: Lacan was […] a skillful rhetorician capable of translating the
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24
May

Vicente Palomera on turning misery into ordinary unhappiness

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week. Freud
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28
Mar

⚯ Reading Notes | Analysis Terminable and Interminable

1. Freud starts by saying something clearly. Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic
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16
Jan

Freud, Lacan & the importance of linguistic analysis

On page 47 of the English edition of Seminar X: Anxiety (Amazon), Lacan says, Even from a superficial reading [of
18
Dec

Lost Objects

I'm reading Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject: Between Language & Jouissance, and in chapter 7: Object
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08
Apr

Why People Like to Hate Freud

A while back, I did an InForm: Podcast [https://inform.transistor.fm/] about why people enjoy hating Freud so much
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