Topic
Lacanian Mojo
Lacanian Mojo is the category referring to Lacanian things & stuff.
The Reason for Going into Analysis (Pt. 2)
Continuing to riff on why someone might go into analysis, I want to highlight
something the Jacques-Alain Miller
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Alain_Miller] says in the video below.
At the 4:40 point of the video, JAM says, “At the root of all knowledge, you
have a practice.
The Reason to Go into Analysis (Pt. 1)
In her wonder book, The Ethics of Opting Out
[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0231180918?tag=neilgorman-20], Mari Ruti
[https://www.mari-ruti.com/]states:
> In analysis, the exploration of our destiny is more gradual, more
self-reflexive. [...] the point is not to obliterate our foundational destiny
(or fundamental fantasies) but
What is The Real || 2
A few weeks back (when the newsletter was still CP), I started to write about
the register of the real, and I described four moments in Lacan’s work, where he
thinks/speaks/teaches about the real. I then tried to describe how the real was
approached in the first
What is the real || 1
Lacanian Mojo (The real part 1 — Moments):
This week, I want to start writing about the real, but I’m 100% positive that I
won’t be able to write all of the things I want to write about it. I plan to
stretch my writing about the real out
A few thought about the imaginary & the symbolic
I get the impression that some people read what Lacanians write about the
imaginary and the symbolic. They get the impression that Lacanians think the
imaginary and the symbolic are somehow “bad.”
That’s wrong.
The imaginary and the symbolic are awesome, and they help us. We need them.
However,
The Symbolic || in RSI
Along with the imaginary, there is the symbolic, which is comprised of customs,
institutions, laws, mores, norms, practices, rituals, rules, traditions, and so
on of cultures and societies.
The symbolic is the non-natural world, or what we have constructed
(Incidentally, thinkers like Derrida have pointed out that what has been
The Imaginary || in RSI
Lacanian Mojo —The Imaginary (the body as it appears in a photo).
To understand the imaginary is to understand the way that a person might
identify with an image, such as the image they see when they look in a mirror or
when they watch a video of themselves. When
The Imaginary (the body as it appears in a photo)
To understand the imaginary is to understand the way that a person might
identify with an image, such as the image they see when they look in a mirror or
when they watch a video of themselves. When a person sees this mirror/video
image, they might think or say,
Pornography creates less of a sexual relationship between people
In last week I wrote about Jacques-Alain Miller’s The Unconscious & the Speaking Body because I think it is a great thing to read if you’re interested in how psychoanalysis is practiced in the here-and-now.