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Jouissance Studies

A collection of 29 issues

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

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

Vincente Palomera on Symptom v. Drive

Continuing to read from the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week. Links On page 6 of the document, under the heading Symptom and Repression, Palomera points out that the symptom and the drive are separate phenomena. The symptom is

The Symptom: Then & Now

From I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing, by Christopher Bollas. In the essay he traced the origin of the idea of citizenship and, having outlined some of its properties, he concluded that ambivalence towards the contemporary state had seeped down into a private loathing of being a citizen in the

Saturday

4/27/24 Hello from a Saturday afternoon. Whoever you are and wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. Top of Mind I've been reading The Iliad. I just finished book one (of 24), and there is a scene in it that I keep thinking

Top of mind: Wednesday

28/2/24 | Storms, Doom-Music, Anne Carson, Rage, Grief, & Castration Yesterday was a very warm day. As I was wrapping up my work day, the sky filled with huge thunderheads that were filled with lightning. When the sun went down, the sky was like a strobe light. I stayed

[Re-Description] Bittersweet

Reading Anne Carson's Wikipedia page, Eros the Bittersweet – Carson's first book of criticism, published in 1986 – examines eros as a simultaneous experience of pleasure and pain best exemplified by "glukupikron", a word of Sappho's creation and the "bittersweet" of the

Anne Carson on why we should read classics today

Here is an excerpt From Anne Carson/Antiquity, a collection edited by Laura Jansen. This is Carson being quoted from an interview she gave, where she responds to the idea that teaching classics is relevant because it can teach us to recover something we need today. I don’t feel

Pro wrestling & jouissance

From an article on Wrestling Inc. on the work that Al Snow is doing at OVW: I'm also doing something here that no one's teaching anymore. I'm teaching the art of how to work a professional wrestling match — not wrestle a professional wrestling match

Compasses, then & now

On the back of Desire and Its Interpretations: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI Jacques-Alain Miller writes: Up until recently, all of our compasses, no matter how varied, pointed in the same direction: toward the Father [the Law]. We considered the patriarch to be an anthropological invariant. His decline