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Jouissance Studies

A collection of 17 issues

Debt Ceiling

Ezra Klein writes (behind NYTimes paywall): Defenders of the debt ceiling will tell you that the limit has been around a long time and has largely operated to the good. America has never defaulted on its debts, but the debt ceiling has often motivated compromise between the two parties. That

Hysteria plus cruelty

David French in his most recent NYTimes column (article is behind the paywall): Hysteria plus cruelty is a recipe for violence. Well said. Reading this made me think of the concept of ordinary psychosis. I rephrased the sentence to read, ”Delusion plus certainty and cruelty is a recipe for violence.

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

Existing as an Individual & a Member of a Society

From Using Lacan, Reading Fiction, by James M. Mellard. Various theorists have embraced Lacan because his reading of Freud has placed particular emphasis on several elements that constitute us as individuals and social beings. This stands out to me because it references what I'd call the non-rapport (i.e., non-harmonious

More on Energetic Pessimism

Yesterday, I wrote about the concept of [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/energetic-pessimist/]energetic pessimism [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/energetic-pessimist/]. Today I want to keep exploring this idea. To do this, I want to look at the author's description of her energetic pessimism. (This is different than the author's description of

Anxiety as Humidity

Over the past week, I've been doing some teaching about anxiety and anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias. As I was teaching on Monday, I thought of a metaphor to explain some of the things I think about anxiety. I was in the middle of a lecture when this metaphor/idea

Jouissance & Drive

More from Miller's The Invention of the Partner [https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/]. Yesterday I wrote about drive [www.surplusjouissance.com/miller-on-desire-v-drive], today I'm focusing on what the text has to say about the connection between jouissance and the drive. > There is jouissance and at this level one cannot recognise

The Quotidian Associations № 006| Libidinal Economy

Events that have taken place during the past few days have got me thinking about libidinal economy. Marxists (and other politically interested people) think about political economy. Psychoanalysts think about libidinal economy. -◉- Nowadays, people will often use the term libido as a synonym for sex drive, but I

The Quotidian Associations №005 | Libido, Object, Jouissance

When I was first learning about psychoanalysis someone told me, "psychoanalysis can be described in lots of different ways, but I think that fundamentally it is the examination and description of the relationship between the subject and their object." -◉- Frued used the concept of libido to describe the

The noise of the world | 12/30/21

I read the following in an article titled The Cost of Engaging With the Miserable [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/twitter-facebook-misery-misinformation/621073/] , by Charlie Warzel [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/charlie-warzel/]. > Every morning, I wake up and grab my doom machine. My phone is a piece of