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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Psychoanalysis
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
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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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:
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01
Mar
Libido & Desire
Very early in Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan points out:
Libido, [which is] a notion that lies at
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20
Feb
Combining Two Things
From the Paris Review interview with Emmanuel Carrère, speaking about W, or the Memory of Childhood, by Georges Perec.
...the
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12
Jan
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,"
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28
Dec
Chè voui?
I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this.
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19
Dec
The Imaginary is Ascendant | This has Political Effects
In the argument for Clinical Study Days 15, Thomas Svolos writes:
The word or the text is no longer enough,
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18
Dec
The Theory of the Subject ($)
More from the 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics by John Rajchman. This article is full of good stuff.
Unlike
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