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Unconscious Studies

Dark Matter

From this thread on Reddit: Basically all we know about dark matter is that it is responsible for binding galaxies together despite their high rate of rotation. If it were just the gravity from visible matter holding galaxies together, they would fly apart at their current rate of rotation. There’

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

Vincente Palomera on Unconscious knowledge

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera. Unconscious knowledge is that it is a knowledge that organizes the life of the subject, a knowledge for which the subject is responsible and about which he nevertheless knows nothing. Psychoanalysis is not the path toward assessing knowledge

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 Ethical Position of the Analyst

In a fantastic paragraph in his 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics, John Rajchman says, Psychoanalysis is not a medical treatment any more than the unconscious is a medical disorder —a dysfunction or maladaptation. Rather the unconscious is a “structural or constitutive fact about ourselves as speaking subjects, and analysis

Subjectivity Between Consciousness & The Unconscious

From The World of Fragile Things: Psychyand the Art of Living , by Mari Ruti. psychoanalysis recognizes the unconscious as an essential component of psychic life, it shifts our conception of what it means to be a human being: rather than equating personhood with structures of consciousness, rationality, or the ego,

A note on The Transferential Unconscious V. The Real Unconscious

In doing some work, I came across this bit of text that I had highlighted in Thomas Svolos's book Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis. (Let me add parenthetically, that in the later work of Lacan, more relevant today in practice, as further developed by Jacques-Alain Miller, in addition to this