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.
Neil Gorman
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 naĂŻve 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 AnaĂŻs 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
More on the void
I found the passage below in this paper by Éric Laurent.
In the seminar on The Object of Psychoanalysis, he took up the first sentences from his first Seminar on the action of the Zen master: “Everyone knows, though one does not know what it means, that a Zen exercise