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Things & Stuff | 003 "The Other Does Not Exist"

0.0 – Preamble Recently, I've been doing some research/reading the idea of "the lying truth," which I'm going to try to put to use in a paper that I'm writing for the LACK conference that will be taking place in April. I started out reading Psychoanalysis has the Structure

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🐺 Encountering the Wolf-Man | 001

Hello 2023, This year I'm starting a few projects that I think could b interesting to the people who read the [S][J][P] Blog and the ◉ Newsletter I send out. One of those projects will be a small in-person study group/reading seminar focused on Freud's From the History

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I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this. This is why the Other's question [_la question_ de l'Aurte] – that comes back to the subject from the place from which he expects an oracular reply– which takes some such form as

Foucault on Art

In her book To Write as if Already Dead, Kate Zambreno quotes Foucault two times. (She may quote him more... I'm not done reading the book. I'm writing this post when I'm about 1/4th though it.) I will propose a game: the year without names. For one year books

Adventures in Wikipedia | Pt. 1

Today, I came across the word heteronym when reading To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno. I knew I had seen this word before, but I could not remember what it meant. I was reading the book in the kindle app on my iPhone, so I highlighted the

The Imaginary is Ascendant | This has Political Effects

In the argument for Clinical Study Days 15, Thomas Svolos writes: The word or the text is no longer enough, and language now needs an image to go with it, to be linked or connected to the text in the narrative. The image is linked to the imaginary register, and

How to use silence as an intervention

From Speedboat by Renata Adler: Describing herself, the protagonist says, I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number. When animated conversations are going on, even with people interrupting one another, I have to curb an impulse to field every remark, by everybody, as though it were addressed

The Theory of the Subject ($)

More from the 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics by John Rajchman. This article is full of good stuff. Unlike "centering" theories of ourselves, the theory of the subject is thus a theory about what divides us from ourselves and so from each other. It raises a new question: what

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 thus not defined by

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