02
Apr
Two Types of Jouissance & Desire
I've been doing some preliminary work and research for a writing project. Part of this work has involved
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Psychoanalysis
24
May
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
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28
Mar
⚯ Reading Notes | Analysis Terminable and Interminable
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Freud starts by saying something clearly.
Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic
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11
Mar
Semblance of truth & Lying truth (Pt. 1)
I’ve been exploring texts written in antiquity to see if there are things in them that can help me
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10
Mar
Some thoughts on the Mirror Phase
The following was a note I wrote to myself today. I'm not sure where I had to stop
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07
Mar
If some comes to you for help and you’re bored
From the introduction of Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis.
The book is by Winnicott, and the introduction is
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28
Feb
Top of mind: Wednesday
28/2/24 | Storms, Doom-Music, Anne Carson, Rage, Grief, & Castration
Yesterday was a very warm day. As I was
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01
Feb
Not everything is an interpretation
In a text titled, What words, What Body?, Anne Lysy writes,[1]
There are words that carry some weight, and
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30
Jan
Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies
Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis:
The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates
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28
Jan
Psychoanalysis as "Cure"
Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis:
It has been for many years now that health
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