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Jouissance Studies

Access to healthy communities

Access to healthy communities

In this post on his Substack, Chris Arnade makes the following observation about men today. If they don't have access to healthy communities, they will find unhealthy ones. The term I've used for the phenomenon of unhealthy communities welcoming people who can't find a

Jouissance v. Desire

The distinction I've been continuing to do work/research for something where I'm going to need to spend some tie • Desire is structured by lack—it’s metonymic, always pointing toward an object that stands in for another. It’s inherently deferred, tied to the future,

Two Types of Jouissance & Desire

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

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. Recently, I've been discussing jouissance, desire, and love with these LLMs. I saw that Claude.ai formulated was desire as imaginary, jouissance as real, and love as a

An interesting though on method

From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière. A method means a path: not the path that a thinker follows but the path that he/she constructs, that you have to construct to know where you are, to figure out the characteristics of the territory

Another interesting production from Claude AI on jouissance & the void

As I continued chatting with Claude AI about the concept of the void in Lacan's teaching, the AI started to make connections between jouissance and the void. I found this production interesting. Jouissance is intimately connected to the void. It represents an attempt to fill the fundamental lack

Vincente Palomera on Symptom v. Drive

Continuing to read from the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week. Links On page 6 of the document, under the heading Symptom and Repression, Palomera points out that the symptom and the drive are separate phenomena. The symptom is