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Lacanian

The category referring to Lacanian things & stuff.

Moving from posistion of castration

Moving from posistion of castration

From a post by Paul Kingsnorth on his Substack. Christianity turns power on its head. This is not the same as rejecting power. It is, instead, transforming it. God’s power is not human power. Our petty little attempts to impose our will by dominance, force and violence mean nothing

Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes, So what is close reading? As my co-editor and I write in our book, “Close reading is the practice of paying attention to a passage of text to account for at least one aspect of its meaning and to

Interpretation in a general sense

Interpretation in a general sense

Speaking about the interpretation of dreams (the act of interpreting dreams and the book by Freud), Lacan says, What thus guides us when we interpret dreams is certainly not, "What does it mean?" or "What does it want by saying that?" but rather, "What, by

The way Lacan talks about "truth"

The way Lacan talks about "truth"

Speaking about the structure of truth Lacan says, We must not take the term "fictions" here as referring to something illusory or deceptive [...] but as covering precisely what I highlighted aphoristically by emphasizing that truth [...] by its very essence [...] in ad of itself, has a fictional structure. I&

Retroactively

Retroactively

Lacan says, We must go pretty far along a path for the point of departure to be clarified retroactively. (p. 162) I like this line a lot. It makes me think about how we all set out along a path, heading in a direction. Or, to say this in 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