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The Real

Dark matter as information

From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter: I’d tripped over an article somewhere that suggests that dark matter is the fifth form of matter, and the fifth form of matter is information. It’s everywhere but invisible because it’s cold, inert information storage stuck to the fabric

Is the Unconscious Real? No!

From Reading A Symptom, by Jacques-Alain Miller. The Unconscious is a Fundamental Hypothesis: The unconscious that lacks Being is represented by a hypothesis, an idea, a theory. It lacks Being. It always slips away, eluding our conscious attempts to contain, control, or understand it. The unconscious could be said to

The end of the analysis is beyond the pleasure principle

Another significant bit from the 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics by John Rajchman, where he makes a very astute observation about the "end of analysis" (i.e., the analytic cure in so far as such a thing exists). The aim or "end" of analysis is