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Latest — Sep 26, 2024

An interesting though on method

From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière. A method means a path: not the path that a thinker follows but the path that he/she constructs, that you have to construct to know where you are, to figure out the characteristics of the territory

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Time & Wounds

From this review of the film Eden, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love. Time does not heal all wounds, but it does change our relationship to painful events. Ture.

Lacan as rhetorician

From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément: Lacan was […] a skillful rhetorician capable of translating the terminology of psychoanalysis into a language, other than “Freud.” (p. 44) This statement is a good description of what Lacan was doing in Seminars I-VI. It seems to me that

Interpretation v. Construction in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Again, from The Madness of Each One by Jorge Assef: rom a psychoanalytic standpoint—, construction and interpretation are different. Interpretation aims at a definite point, breaks the S1-S2 relationship, opens a door to meaninglessness, etc., while construction brings together, articulates S1-S2, producing a simulation of meaning just where we need

The shift in Lacan's teaching

From The Madness of Each One by Jorge Assef Lacan, throughout his teaching, made the same movement as the epoch. His first teaching, the classical one, consisted of a theoretical structure that is based on a consistent big Other, therefore the Name-of-the-Father was at the center. Lacan in his last

Psychoanalysis & Teaching

From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément: Teacher of what? Psychoanalysts have never gotten beyond this naïve question, rehashed time and time again ever since Freud. What can a psychoanalyst teach his colleagues? Nothing. That is, "normally" nothing, for psychoanalytic practice can only be

Perhaps later

Woke up at 5:05 am today. I had got my body downstairs and was putting on my running shoes on by 5:15 am (I like to run in these early pre-dawn hours.) After I had my shoes on, I moved to the door, and I felt my body

Nin on writing

From The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin. I think we should always write about what we know, or what we wish to know. Hell yeah!

The way bananas tasted when I was a kid

From Warren Ellis’s blog: I’m eating blueberries and listening to the radio. Yesterday, I ate a banana that tasted exactly the way bananas tasted when I was a kid. This is one of those descriptions of a quotidian moments that tend to capture my attention when I encounter

Another interesting production from Claude AI on jouissance & the void

As I continued chatting with Claude AI about the concept of the void in Lacan's teaching, the AI started to make connections between jouissance and the void. I found this production interesting. Jouissance is intimately connected to the void. It represents an attempt to fill the fundamental lack