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Lacanian Mojo

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

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.

Miller's The Unconscious & the Speaking Body

I’ve been thinking about a bunch: How is the practice of psychoanalysis today different than it was in the past?

Master Signifiers & Adolescent Identity

Every year I teach a class on doing psychotherapy with adolescents. I’m not teaching the class this summer, but recently I read Lacan’s short paper On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire in the Écrits [https://www.amazon.com/Ecrits-Complete-English-Jacques-Lacan/dp/0393329259], and it put the

Some Thoughts on the Real

The real is something that is a profound truth that has a traumatic impact on those who are exposed to it. An example of this is the truth the concepts of nothingness that is the heat death of the universe, another is the idea of infinite non-existence.

What is the real || 0

The real: One of the most interesting concepts in Lacanian psychoanalysis is the concept of the real. Perhaps one of the reasons this concept is so interesting is because it is outside f the imaginary and the symbolic, and that makes something we can’t ever really explain in the

What is S2 in the four discourses?

Last week I covered S1 [https://neil.substack.com/p/what-is-s1-win-the-four-discourses], and this week I’ll move onto S2. This will leave $ and a, which future editions of the newsletter will get into. REVIEW: S1 = The master signifier which is an empty signifier. The master signifier is the signifier that

What is S1 w/in the four discourses?

THE SYMBOLS: To understand Lacan’s four discourses I think it is useful to have an idea of what the four symbols he will use in all four of the discourses mean. However, providing a key of this sort is not easy. The main reason that it is difficult is

Capitalism & The Death Drive

Capitalism & Psychoanalysis: I find that it is difficult to have a serious conversation about the death drive with non-psychoanalytic people. Be that as it may, I recently had an interesting person with a non-psychoanalytic clinician about the death drive, and the conversation was good! During the conversation I said: