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Latest — Nov 13, 2024

Beshear’s words

Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, wrote the following in an op-ed published by the New York Times (the article is paywalled) When most Americans wake up in the morning, they are not thinking about politics. Americans wake up thinking about their jobs and whether they make enough money to

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The Dems as HR department

I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of the articles say the same thing. Today, I read this article by Mike Pesca in The Atlantic, and I think it had a very well-put observation. I’ve been thinking

Repetition & Isolation of a Symptomatic Element.

From Analysis Laid Bare, By Jacques-Alain Miller. Let us introduce her a little dialectic [...] It is because there is the obstacle that there is repetition, but it is because there is repetition the obstacle is perceived and isolated. (p. 14) What I think Miller is getting at is that when

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

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