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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

Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies

Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis: The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates of cultural studies, whose interest in decoding Lacan remains purely intellectual, that is to say, disjointed from the analytical experience. They talk psychoanalysis, yet for them psychoanalysis is confined to

The body is an instrument we play when we speak

This morning, I was reading The Pinning of Someone Unplaceable by Dominique Holvoet in The Lacanian Review #9: Still Life? (pp. 81-86), and I read the following sentence that highlights something that Jacques-Alain Miller said in the text Habeas Corpus. J.-A. Miller [said] "man, unlike the subject, has

Things & Stuff | 003 "The Other Does Not Exist"

0.0 – Preamble Recently, I've been doing some research/reading the idea of "the lying truth," which I'm going to try to put to use in a paper that I'm writing for the LACK conference that will be taking place in April.

Existing as an Individual & a Member of a Society

From Using Lacan, Reading Fiction, by James M. Mellard. Various theorists have embraced Lacan because his reading of Freud has placed particular emphasis on several elements that constitute us as individuals and social beings. This stands out to me because it references what I'd call the non-rapport (i.

Pornography creates less of a sexual relationship between people

In last week I wrote about Jacques-Alain Miller’s The Unconscious & the Speaking Body because I think it is a great thing to read if you’re interested in how psychoanalysis is practiced in the here-and-now.

Miller's The Unconscious & the Speaking Body

I’ve been thinking about a bunch: How is the practice of psychoanalysis today different than it was in the past?