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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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.
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
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
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
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