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Lacanian Mojo

Lacanian Mojo is the category referring to Lacanian things & stuff.

A path

From L’étourdit (1972), ‘A Bilingual Presentation of the First Turn’ Summer 2009, via Lacan in Ireland. One can discourse in a thousand ways about the analyst. Rightly or wrongly. And if it is wrongly (which never fails to be the case), it is better to traverse its impasses and

Vicente Palomera on turning misery into ordinary unhappiness

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week. Freud has been variously paraphrased as saying that psychoanalysis could treat neurotic misery, but that it could not treat ordinary human unhappiness. [...] This is a phrase of terrible realism and pessimism,

Thursday 4/18 | Delusion

In There are Four Discourses, Lacan says that Freud thought: That all is but a dream and that everyone (if one can say such a thing), that everyone is mad, that is, delusional. In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan writes: one key ingredient of so-called

Subject of the enunciation, tomorrow

I found this very early in the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. He found himself uttering a series of “excuse mes” that he did not mean. A truly magnificent thing about the way the brain was coded, Sam thought, was that it could say “Excuse me”

Top of Mind | Derrida through Lacan-Miller

Hi there, I sent out the most recent edition of my email ◉ Newsletter today, and in that text, I wrote about how my sleeping routine has been thrown way off. I don’t want to make a huge deal about it because I am getting sleep. I’m functional but

Semblance of truth & Lying truth (Pt. 1)

I’ve been exploring texts written in antiquity to see if there are things in them that can help me understand how truth functions in an experience of psychoanalysis today. Today, I want to focus on a text titled De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) by Cicero.

Some thoughts on the Mirror Phase

The following was a note I wrote to myself today. I'm not sure where I had to stop writing it and do other stuff, and then when I came back to it, I had lost the thread. Be that as it may, I want to post something here

Transference | Truth or Fiction?

1. The Question Is transference a truth or a fiction 2. What Lacan said When I was thinking about this question, I went to the Preface to the English edition of Seminar XI, one of Lacan's last texts. There, Lacan says, All I can do is tell the

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