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Lacanian

The category referring to Lacanian things & stuff.

More on the void

I found the passage below in this paper by Éric Laurent. In the seminar on The Object of Psychoanalysis, he took up the first sentences from his first Seminar on the action of the Zen master: “Everyone knows, though one does not know what it means, that a Zen exercise

Void

I've been trying to develop a better understanding of the concept of the void in Lacan's teaching. As I've been trying to do this I've been supplementing my readings (of Lacan and prominent Lacanians) with exchanges with different LLM AIs. I'

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

A path

From L’étourdit (1972), ‘A Bilingual Presentation of the First Turn’ Summer 2009, via Lacan in Ireland. One can discourse in a thousand ways about the analyst. Rightly or wrongly. And if it is wrongly (which never fails to be the case), it is better to traverse its impasses and

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 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,

Thursday 4/18 | Delusion

In There are Four Discourses, Lacan says that Freud thought: That all is but a dream and that everyone (if one can say such a thing), that everyone is mad, that is, delusional. In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan writes: one key ingredient of so-called

Subject of the enunciation, tomorrow

I found this very early in the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. He found himself uttering a series of “excuse mes” that he did not mean. A truly magnificent thing about the way the brain was coded, Sam thought, was that it could say “Excuse me”