14
Jun
Lacan on Aristotle
In Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960, Lacan says the following about reading Aristotle:
There are no doubt a
Notebook
This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
28
May
Debt Ceiling
Ezra Klein writes (behind NYTimes paywall):
Defenders of the debt ceiling will tell you that the limit has been around
28
May
Hysteria plus cruelty
David French in his most recent NYTimes column (article is behind the paywall):
Hysteria plus cruelty is a recipe for
09
May
Purpose, or the lack there of
Craig Mod keeps dropping these wonderful bits of text that are so smart and very well said.
When you watch
03
May
The Role of Reading in Analysis
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the patient’s/analysand’s speech can be “read” as if it were text. Writing about this
1 min read
02
May
Transmitting What Happens in Psychoanalysis
Neville Symington writes:
Psychoanalysis is an experience that occurs between two people. It is a deep experience and can only
01
May
How lunatic your life is getting
From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations newsletter:
Rewatching some episodes of SUCCESSION the other day: there's a bit
29
Apr
So True
From Craig Mod:
I am always astonished by kindness and never astonished by cruelty, and in this way my mind
28
Apr
Lacan on Reading & Psychoanalysis
What does Lacan say about the act of reading as a metaphor for psychoanalytic practice? Shoshana Felman offers the following:
1 min read
01
Mar
Libido & Desire
Very early in Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan points out:
Libido, [which is] a notion that lies at
1 min read