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Psychoanalysis

Ride a Bus & Get University Course Credits?!

Yesterday, I posted about the chapter, Everyone Longs for a Master: Lacan and 1968 by Stephen Frosh. I got my hands on a (digital) version of the book this chapter is in and started reading it today. Very early in the text, I found this: Judith Miller, who in 1970

Some thoughts on teaching about Lacan's Object (petit) a

One of the books I use in a class I'm teaching this semester is The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves [https://www.amazon.com/Examined-Life-Lose-Find-Ourselves/dp/0393349322/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TFUBG95CEF5U&keywords=stephen+grosz+s+the+examined+life&qid=1648554225&

Different Kinds of Revolutionary Movements

Over the past weekend, I've been able to continue my research into the connections/relationships between civilization, the state, and psychoanalysis I found something I think is interesting in an abstract for a chapter in a book [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7]. > Lacan

Random Thing in an Old Notebook

Going through an old notebook, I found the following sentence: > Analysts more than most people set up boundaries and then let people have whatever reaction they want to have to those boundaries. I don’t know if this was something I thought up and then wrote down or if

Validation of Perception with Paranoia

I came across something interesting this morning. > [W]e offer a conceptualization of psychotic states [...] With emphasis on failures of archaic self object ties in the specific function of validation of perception. [1] This quote is from a book by psychoanalysts outside the Lacanian orientation (which is the orientation

⚯ Reading Notes | All My Reals, By Gerardo Aranas

What real is at stake in psychoanalysis today? This is the question that is orienting the work that the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com] (which I am a member of) is working on now. The work will culminate in the Clinical Study Days 14 [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/csd]

⌬ Lecture № 16 | Lacan, Part I: Imaginary, Symbolic, & Semblants

⌬ Lecture № 16 | Lacan, Part I: Imaginary, Symbolic, & Semblants