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Psychoanalysis

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The end of the analysis is beyond the pleasure principle

Another significant bit from the 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics by John Rajchman, where he makes a very astute observation about the "end of analysis" (i.e., the analytic cure in so far as such a thing exists). The aim or "end" of analysis is

The Ethical Position of the Analyst

In a fantastic paragraph in his 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics, John Rajchman says, Psychoanalysis is not a medical treatment any more than the unconscious is a medical disorder —a dysfunction or maladaptation. Rather the unconscious is a “structural or constitutive fact about ourselves as speaking subjects, and analysis

Subjectivity Between Consciousness & The Unconscious

From The World of Fragile Things: Psychyand the Art of Living , by Mari Ruti. psychoanalysis recognizes the unconscious as an essential component of psychic life, it shifts our conception of what it means to be a human being: rather than equating personhood with structures of consciousness, rationality, or the ego,

Psychoanalysis & Punk Rock

One of the things that runs through several episodes of InForm: Podcast is the question: Does psychoanalysis need to be marginal? The claim that I've made is that psychoanalysis does need to be marginal. What I've offered to back up this claim comes from the book

Pure Psychoanalysis & Pure Punk Rock

From the opening pages of Our, Band Could Be Your Life, by Michael Azerrad. On September 24, 1991, an album called Nevermind by a band called Nirvana came out, went gold in a matter of weeks, bumped Michael Jackson off the number one spot on the Billboard album charts soon

Psychotherapy is About Reclaiming (Investing) in an Identification

In Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy, Miller does a deep dive into what makes psychoanalysis different from psychotherapy. Miller highlights many things, but the text below strikes me as very important. (It is also connected to what I posted earlier here.) In terms of psychotherapy, one could say: the

Love & Transference

From Still Life with Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins. Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed,

Psychotherapy Preserves the Consistency of the Other, Psychoanalysis Does Not

More from J.A. Miller on the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy: We preserve, in psychotherapy, the consistency of the Other, since what would be unique in the analytic position pertaining to psychoanalysis itself would be admitting the question of jouissance, would make

Vamperized

From the most recent [S][J][P] ◉ Newsletter I sent out yesterday: I've been re-reading the text Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy by Jacques-Alain Miller. The whole text is engaging, but one of the parts that strikes a chord with me is from the section with the

Lacan's Seminar XI | A Reading

Some preliminary remarks by me, the reader. This post is part of a series of posts about a reading of Lacan's Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, which was given in 1964. -◉- Before getting going, I want to state a few things as clearly