So True
From Craig Mod:
I am always astonished by kindness and never astonished by cruelty, and in this way my mind feels broken.
Well said.
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Notebook
This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
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
Libido & Desire
Very early in Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan points out:
Libido, [which is] a notion that lies at the heart of psychoanalytic theory, is nothing but the psychical energy of desire (p. 4).
He also points out that when a person is defensive, they are often defending themselves
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–
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
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
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