There is no ideal partner I don't know when I started to do this or why I started to do it. Now, when I'm reading Lacan (or the writing of Lacanians), and I encounter the phrase "There is no such thing as a sexual relationship" or "the sexual
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,
General Head-Noise 21/2/24 General Head-Noise posts are started at the beginning of my day and updated throughout the day. The posts contain a semi-structured collection of thoughts, reflections, reactions, associations, and observations. There are far from fully formed / completely thought out ideas. Instead, they are ideas in an emergent state,
Freud, Lacan & the importance of linguistic analysis On page 47 of the English edition of Seminar X: Anxiety (Amazon), Lacan says, Even from a superficial reading [of Freud], the first thing that leaps to yoru attention is the importance Freud attaches to linguistic analysis. I think psychotherapy often misses the importance of the language, the words, and
Lacan's comment on trash A Package: A few moments ago, a box was delivered to my doorstep. I brought it up to my office, opened it, and found a copy of the newly published English translation of Seminar XVI: From an Other (Amazon, Cormac Gallagher translation). I've been really interested in this
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:
Lacan on Aristotle In Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960, Lacan says the following about reading Aristotle: There are no doubt a number of difficulties to be found at the level of the text, and it's digressions and in the order of his arguments. But skip over the passages that
Lacan on Reading & Psychoanalysis What does Lacan say about the act of reading as a metaphor for psychoanalytic practice? Shoshana Felman offers the following: Lacan's particular perspective on the matter? "It is obvious," says Lacan, "that in analytic discourse, what is at stake is nothing other than what can
Chè voui? 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–