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
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.
15
Jan
Quotidian Things & Stuff 003 | Liminality
Writing about things that he would like to have more of in 2024, Marc Wiedenbaum of Disquiet named “liminality.
Transition
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12
Jan
The lack of presence
I found these words in the book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years
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11
Jan
Blogging & RSS
Writing on disquiet, Marc Weidenbaum says,
The key thing is that blogging is not about final drafts. Blogging is as
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10
Jan
Great sentence(s) | 001
I read a lot of stuff. Sometimes I come across sentences I like a lot. When that happens I’m
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08
Jan
Lacan's comment on trash
A Package:
A few moments ago, a box was delivered to my doorstep. I brought it up to my office,
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04
Oct
Milch on not knowing
From David Milch's autobiography, Life's Work, (2022).
The very idea of not knowing as an organizing
25
Sep
Imaginary Demand v. Symbolic Law
From Todd McGowan's excellent chapter titled The Psychosis of Freedom: Law in Modernity in Lacan on Psychosis: From
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05
Jul
Truth & Existence
Neville Symington on the truth in psychoanalysis:
Truth is real; it exists. Positivistic thinking has had such a strong influence
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17
Jun
Remember this about the Other
In his 2000 article, Melancholy and the Act, Žižek writes:
The Lacanian big Other designates not merely the explicit symbolic