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Psychoanalysis

A collection of 92 issues

Two Types of Jouissance & Desire

I've been doing some preliminary work and research for a writing project. Part of this work has involved trying to formalize and articulate the distinctions between., Other jouissance, phallic jouissance, and desire. Here is a working hypothesis: * Desire is how the subject relates to what is lost through

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,

⚯ Reading Notes | Analysis Terminable and Interminable

1. Freud starts by saying something clearly. Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic symptoms, inhibitions, and abnormalities of character— is a time-consuming business. I notice he says "psycho-analytic therapy" and not just psychoanalysis. That's interesting. Perhaps Freud does not

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

If some comes to you for help and you’re bored

From the introduction of Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis. The book is by Winnicott, and the introduction is by Masud R. Khan. Some six months before Dr. Winnicott’s death in January 1971. A group of young Anglican priests invited him to come talk to them. He accepted,

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

Not everything is an interpretation

In a text titled, What words, What Body?, Anne Lysy writes,[1] There are words that carry some weight, and others that don't. That's what we call interpretation,[2]" Lacan said in Nice at the end of 1974. The whole question is: how to they

Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies

Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis: The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates of cultural studies, whose interest in decoding Lacan remains purely intellectual, that is to say, disjointed from the analytical experience. They talk psychoanalysis, yet for them psychoanalysis is confined to

Psychoanalysis as "Cure"

Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis: It has been for many years now that health insurance companies have enforced a standard called “managed care” (soins organisés). Under such an organization controlling reimbursements, psychoanalytic treatment cannot be validated. Likewise the mandate of the health industry leads