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Psychoanalysis

A collection of 91 issues

The body is an instrument we play when we speak

This morning, I was reading The Pinning of Someone Unplaceable by Dominique Holvoet in The Lacanian Review #9: Still Life? (pp. 81-86), and I read the following sentence that highlights something that Jacques-Alain Miller said in the text Habeas Corpus. J.-A. Miller [said] "man, unlike the subject, has

Gil Caroz on Psychosis v. Neurosis.

From the text, The Degree Zero of Madness, by Gil Caroz: The psychotic, however, distinguishes himself in that he recognizes the foreign presence of this Other who speaks through him, who occasionally speaks to him and intrudes. In contrast, the neurotic ignores the fact that the Other speaks within him,

The Convivial Society | On Language & the Symbolic Today

Writing in his email newsletter, The Convivial Society, L.M. Sacasas gives us the following: Close to the start of the year, I reflected on the plight of language under digital conditions. I was motivated by the sense that “something of consequence is happening to ordinary language, the lifeblood of

My favorite Adam Phillips video

This is the first time in seven years that I'm not returning to teaching. Be that as it may, I found myself thinking about things that I would typically do at the start of a semester. One of the things that came to mind was how I would

Quotidian Things & Stuff 003 | Liminality

Writing about things that he would like to have more of in 2024, Marc Wiedenbaum of Disquiet named “liminality. Transition time — bus rides, long lunches, and liminality in general have long since declined in my life, and I need to bring back that attenuated interstitial aspect of existence. Midday walks

◉ [S][J][P] | "It does not taste like sewer water."

Hi there, This is the second week in a row that I've sent out the newsletter. And, while two does not constitute much of a streak, I'm glad to have managed it. Earlier today, I made my kids dinner. One of the kids said he did

The lack of presence

I found these words in the book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin. a photograph would capture none of what the painting was about and everything that it was not about. That is, a photograph could convey image

Acting Out & Passage to the Act

I’ve been thinking a lot about acting out and passage to the act. I want to do something with these concepts, but I don’t know exactly what at this moment. Be that as it may, I think I will see what happens when I return to Seminar VII:

Lost Objects

I'm reading Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject: Between Language & Jouissance, and in chapter 7: Object (a): Casuse of Desire, I found this amazing paragraph. Freud does not claim here that the object is, of its very nature, lost in any absolute sense. An object is

Milch on not knowing

From David Milch's autobiography, Life's Work, (2022). The very idea of not knowing as an organizing principle is to be accepted with a proper humility—that it’s a privilege not to know and be given a chance to find out. You’re always aware there’